Oh to write like Emily –
Dickinson – I mean
Metaphoric genius
Rarely ever seen
Every line a puzzle
Waiting to unwind
Taut with strange intensity
Created in her mind
Emily is hard to
Understand at first
What’s this line here meaning?
What’s this mean – this verse?
Choosing to be solitary
Her only friend her mind
Unknowing of her genius
Unsure of others’ minds
Instructions on her death-bed?
Burn my life of verse
Deny the world your brilliance?
No others can immerse?
Oh to write like Emily
Dickinson, who did
Shake the world of literature
To what you did – and hid
-DON MATTHEWS
Don is an Australian writer who focuses on humour. He runs the ‘Flippant, Comic, and Serious’ website.
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Don’s poetic tribute to Emily Dickinson is more than simple praise. It’s the dissection of a creative mind that wrote its way into readers’ hearts and souls. Why this thought? Why these words? Why do I wish to read them again and again? There’s no explanation for genius and often such lives can be lonely and piteous. To Emily and her decisions, may she live on.
Congratulations Don!
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Thanks Terveen……
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What a beautiful poem. Love her poem and you just reminded me that I still haven’t finished the book of poem by her. She can extract philosophical meaning from any mundane object.
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She was very good HAOYANDO.. Thankyou
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Love this Don, what a great piece of writing. Beautiful!
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Thanks Joni. Took forever to write and lots of fine tuning. One of my rare efforts……
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It was a beautiful write Don. I really enjoyed it.
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Written a couple of years ago in my Emily phase. I like her complexity. A puzzle to unravel. To think she wanted everything burned on her death. Her sister denied her wishes. Thank goodness for the world of literature……
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Fantastic poem, Don!
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Love your simplicity rich with depth that lift and inspire Don. Congrats❣️
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