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Friday 23 August 2013

LOVE AND POVERTY AS A SUBJECT FOR POETRY

A man said "Love and poverty go together" I wonder what he meant...

I wonder if he really meant "love and poetry go together"?
Or is poetry a form of poverty?
Poverty is lack.
Is poetry a lack of emotional restraint?
Oh that could start such a debate!

Do poets love more lavishly than the pragmatic?
So when love ends they are left quite destitute?

Do they tear their "clothes" to rags, leave themselves exposed?
So they are "poorly" defended against indifference;
left naked before the unkind and potentially ironic gaze of the beloved...

Manuela Cardiga

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