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the poet's folly
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poet, foolish one
sees what the wise will not see --
shouts to the world: "LOOK!"

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this comes from my haiku project ... i'm posting it here now in response to ian thorpe's poem "the legacy". if you haven't done so please read ian's poem ...

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 Reviews of "the poet's folly"
Reviewed by Kathleen Herrick (Reader)
Reviewed on January 30, 2003
So true. Haiku's to you!

Reviewed by Birdie Houston (Reader)
Reviewed on January 28, 2003
Nice Haiku.......loved the projection of the poem

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on January 27, 2003
A poet goes where fools won't...LOL
Love
Tinka

Reviewed by ShyPoet 1
Reviewed on January 13, 2003
Deep! Made me think.

Reviewed by Tien Avielle (Reader)
Reviewed on January 13, 2003
"poet, foolish one
sees what the wise will not see --
shouts to the world: "LOOK!" - I'd have written it differently : "Poet, foolish one
sees what the blind will not see -- shouts to the world: "Look!" ( forgive the intrusion, please.)

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on January 12, 2003
"the only difference between my and other people, is that i realize and they don't" W.Whitman... short but very effective...

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)
Reviewed on January 12, 2003
john,
I love your haiku.
Peg

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on January 12, 2003
A poet goes where fools will not?

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on January 12, 2003
brilliant John!

Reviewed by anne cunningham
Reviewed on January 12, 2003
loved this ... it had me picturing hand-flapping and pointing mad poets, and the general public wishing (sometimes) that we were more adequately dosed on ritalin!!!

Reviewed by Oisín Breen (Reader)
Reviewed on January 12, 2003
Viscious. Sentiments of my own. That so much is live yet no one looks as if we are the honey bees not folk of dreams and dreaming.


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