A scholar named Wang

A scholar named Wang,
laughed at my poems.
“The accents are wrong.” He said,
“Too many beats,
the meter is poor,
the wording impulsive.”

I laugh at his poems,
As he laughs at mine.
They read like:
the words of a blind man,
describing the sun.

~ Hoff (from Tao of Pooh)

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