March 13, 2007

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  If You Could Write One Great Poem,
  What Would You Want It To Be About?

  (Asked of four students poets at the Illinois
  Schools for the Deaf and Visually Impaired)

  Fire: because it is quick, and can destroy.
  Music: place where anger has its place.
  Romantic Love – the cold or stupid ask why.
  Sign: that it is a language, full of grace,

  That it is visible, invisible, dark and clear,
  That it is loud and noiseless and is contained
  Inside a body and explodes in air
  Out of a body to conquer from the mind.

  Robert Pinsky

   

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