Haydn
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A poem does not need to be about
Emotions, yours or anyone’s. Instead
A sonnet may avoid a tear or shout.
Indeed the lines could be about your head,
Your brain, your mind. They might take on the wide
Parameters of beauty, whether sweet
Or grand. Piano trios can confide
Just prettiness, like china in a neat
Display in dark wood and in glass…and so
Might verse be brittle and with gilt around
Its edges. Poems need not overflow
With gush or feelings, painful or profound.
..Hot rationality can use its aims
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….To point out loveliness, like candle flames.