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A Good Poem
I am jealous of people who write good poetry
I am jealous when it comes so naturally
But what is a good poem
Is it defined by the amount of line breaks, the weird structure, or how much blank space is left
Why do you like “bewitching juvenile female”
Better than
“pretty young women”
Why do you like “Incandescent resplendent dusk”
Better than
The “angry bright sunset”
Why has the quality or the level of “good” been determined by how many times one look at the thesaurus?
If using foreign words add to sophistication,
Then a good poem must be:
“Experience the serendipity
Albeit lying supine and the dewy petrichor
As a pluviophile
In a forest of sequoia
Idyllic aurora
Abyssopelagic zone
Vellichor in books
Panacea.”
What is the point of writing
when no one can understand?
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i have a love/hate relationship with the thesaurus.