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Willow Tree Poem

Published June 20, 2008 Michael Lee Johnson Leave a Comment
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Wind dancers
dancing to the
willow wind,
leaves swaying
right to left
all day long.
I’m depressed.
Birds hanging on-
bleaching feathers
out into
the sun.

Michael Lee Johnson

Contrasting Views

"Literalism is a feature of boorish translators." Cicero "The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase." Nabokov

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Sigmund Freud

"Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me."

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