Category Archives: poem, poetry, postmodernist, poststructuralist

EASY

poetry is easy
you
just write it
and there it be
it is there

look at these
lines for example
nothing here
of note
what
could be easier?

everything open
totally transparent

complete absence
of the overly complicated,
tricky metaphor
hint
    of theory

stuff that might
mask, deflect, expose,
distract,
       misdirect

present you
with who knows what
confusion, dissonance
about
   the nature of
your world, the world,
and who in this
world
      in fact you
thought
you really are

get you to stay
from what you
know
   to be true

were
told to be true
in heart and
soul
      battle of
hearts and minds along
strictest of lines

between which
should not read

so easy to
read these lines

miss yourself
falling between them
   
there
     
you

    be

have always been
there it lies