Poetry about Poetry ... original or previously published poetry, September 2001
Creativity
Creating a lyric
in the age of the epic
creating a tragedy
in the age of the ode
creating a man
in the age of mankind
created good
in the age of do-gooders
creating one's own
in the age of ownership
creating the strange
in the age of calculated
creating
in the age of the created
amid permitted miracles
forever creating -
this prohibited
miracle
Vyacheslav Kupriyanov
, translation Francis R.Jones (from "In Anyone's Tongue", 1992, Forest Books, London & Boston)
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