For Your In-Consideration, A Fragment

The Poet · 06-11-2009, 02:36 PM

What, 70+ hits, and only 2 replies? C'mon, guys - don't want a flame-war, but what about a coupla sparks? I'm not lookin' for kudos or Cubans here - smack me up aside the haid, knee me inna 'nads, whatever. I'm a big boy.

Hey, if you think a poet is some pansy in purple pantaloons sipping jasmine tea and chewing on his calamus, then you don't know what's a poet. That is a poetaster, a poesy poseur, not a poet. Homer and Vergil were poets - they wrote of war and heroes. Dante and Milton were poets - they wrote of Heaven and Hell. Ezra Pound was one too, and the US Army thought he was so dangerous that they threw him into prison camp, then locked him in the loony bin! And damn near all of them wrote about sex. Poets have started more battles, and ended more wars, than did any general - check your history books. That's what poets do, and are.

Gimme love, gimme hate, gimme you don't give a $#!+ - but gimme more than muteness.

06-11-2009, 02:36 PM	#4
The Poet Il megglior fabbro Join Date: Jun 2009 First Name: Thomas Location: Hickory, NC Posts: 8,420 Trading: (2)	Re: For Your In-Consideration, A Fragment What, 70+ hits, and only 2 replies? C'mon, guys - don't want a flame-war, but what about a coupla sparks? I'm not lookin' for kudos or Cubans here - smack me up aside the haid, knee me inna 'nads, whatever. I'm a big boy. Hey, if you think a poet is some pansy in purple pantaloons sipping jasmine tea and chewing on his calamus, then you don't know what's a poet. That is a poetaster, a poesy poseur, not a poet. Homer and Vergil were poets - they wrote of war and heroes. Dante and Milton were poets - they wrote of Heaven and Hell. Ezra Pound was one too, and the US Army thought he was so dangerous that they threw him into prison camp, then locked him in the loony bin! And damn near all of them wrote about sex. Poets have started more battles, and ended more wars, than did any general - check your history books. That's what poets do, and are. Gimme love, gimme hate, gimme you don't give a $#!+ - but gimme more than muteness.