Like my writing mentor, Barbara Helfgott Hyett, always says to poets who aspire to be published, “If there is no danger...there is no poem.”
“You can write poems that are void of conflict and there is a market for that—-as with Hallmark cards. But, you won’t find any Hallmark cards in a poetry anthology.”
After the Cardinals’ disappointing 34-31 home loss to the Dolphins last Sunday, QB Kyler Murray sat before the media and had a very difficult time finding words to describe his frustration.
Despite doing everything humanly possible to atone for a 1st quarter fumble that the Dolphins scooped up and ran for a TD, even to the point of lowering his shoulder on one of his cat quick scampers downfield, all that Kyler could think of in summing up the loss was:
“We came out here and laid an egg.