Explore the experience that is poetry with Billy Collins. Love this poem…Enjoy!
Introduction to Poetry
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
by Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
by Billy Collins
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