7 Published Poems
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 2:11 pm
could it be true
that Emily was so afraid?
Some say
she had a morbid fear
of revealing her soul,
had phobic contentions
that the public distrusted
poets, their work.
Afterall,
poetry can be difficult
to understand,
obscure, strange,
some critics believed
it was written by people
out of touch with reality.
To the contrary,
many poets have been
people of action,
deeply involved with
the biorhythms of common life.
Ben Johnson was a bricklayer,
Robert Burns a farmer.
Walt Whitman was a carpenter,
E.A. Robinson worked in the subways.
Herman Melville worked
in a customs house,
William Carlos Williams
was a physician, Langston Hughes,
a hotel busboy.
Still, Ms. Dickinson had such fear
she only published 7 poems
in her lifetime.
Fortunately after she left
this scary world, more than
a thousand poems were found
in a shoebox in her closet.
that Emily was so afraid?
Some say
she had a morbid fear
of revealing her soul,
had phobic contentions
that the public distrusted
poets, their work.
Afterall,
poetry can be difficult
to understand,
obscure, strange,
some critics believed
it was written by people
out of touch with reality.
To the contrary,
many poets have been
people of action,
deeply involved with
the biorhythms of common life.
Ben Johnson was a bricklayer,
Robert Burns a farmer.
Walt Whitman was a carpenter,
E.A. Robinson worked in the subways.
Herman Melville worked
in a customs house,
William Carlos Williams
was a physician, Langston Hughes,
a hotel busboy.
Still, Ms. Dickinson had such fear
she only published 7 poems
in her lifetime.
Fortunately after she left
this scary world, more than
a thousand poems were found
in a shoebox in her closet.
