Challenge
Poems That Stopped You in Your Tracks
Today The Prose Channel on YouTube featured a challenge several years old...here's your chance to tell us the poem that stopped you in your personal tracks as a writer...
What it Is
What it Is (Translated from Was es Ist) by Erich Fried
It is nonsense
says reason
It is what it is
says love
It is calamity
says calculation
It is nothing but pain
says fear
It is hopeless
says insight
It is what it is
says love
It is ludicrous
says pride
It is foolish
says caution
It is impossible
says experience
It is what it is
says love
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