Naïveté
Your writing naive poetry, she said,
I think, or maybe you're naive to think
you're writing poetry at all, or
you're naive to think that what you write is poetry.
What poetry is, you're not writing
I think she critiqued finally.
Precious little encouragement there
except she did use the word poetry.
But of course poetry cannot be naive
naive poetry is the mother of all oxymorons
just ask whoever said that poetry
is the metaphoric spark one step ahead
of any decoding mechanism.
Writing poetry then is discovering metaphors that can't be decoded?
Metaphorically speaking Navajo?
Whatever the hell it is, it awakens me
to scribble fragmented strings of letters
born of turbulent convoluted dreams
that in the light of day may be Navajo
but may not be naive.
Ah, yes. I love this. Thank you.
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