It kills me when poets hide meaning in obscurity;
the point of poetry cannot be a secret desire to be misunderstood.
Poets of the future, do not hide behind vague words and the foggy
undertones of complex metaphors. Let your meaning ring true!
If you are brave, if you are bad, if you noble, if you are scared...
Let us know.
It is not hard to write an incomprehensible poem;
it is much more difficult to write a poem that many people happily
and easily relate to. That it success. If one tells you that they feel
precisely how you wrote your poem, you can be paid no higher compliment.
Oh my friends, keep your big words and glamorous meanings, that is who you are.
This is who we've always been and I wouldn't dare challenge that.
But poets of the future, make sure your meaning is loud. And make sure
it resonates in the air and that at the end of the day, there is no way it could be missed.
That is all the future could expect of you.
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