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You Cannot Break a Poet's Heart
A poet cannot be broken-heartedWhen a dear one dies, she writes a requiemWhen a lover is untrue, she writes a sonnetWhen the world is cruel, she writes satiric verse
A poet can take all the grief from her heart(the pain that can swell and break a heart)and write it in fine black lines on starchy white paper
Oh, no, you cannot break a poet’s heart.
The above poem is one of the first serious poems that 16-year-old Lois wrote many, many years ago.
Excerpted from Beloved by Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad.
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