Max Reif - Proposal To Outlaw the Word 'Love' in Poems (a Mean Poem?)

PoemHunter.com 2014-11-07

Views 6

'Love loves to love love.'
-James Joyce

I believe in Love,
But the word 'love',
When it occurs in a poem

Is often a blanket
Thrown over the real
Interaction being described.

If I were dictator
I might decree
No love-poet could use
The word 'love'.

Max Reif

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/proposal-to-outlaw-the-word-love-in-poems-a-mean-poem/

Share This Video


Download

  
Report form