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Poetry versus Creative Writing

Sourced from an ineffable place,
poetry helps embodied souls
keep pace
with the dearly departed.

An effing displacement of use,
though,
are verse made for dollars, not sense;
sold short are the faint-hearted.

Dave Read

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