SOME INITIAL QUESTIONS TO PONDER

A Little Introspection & Planning is Usually a good Starting Point for any Project.

6/27/20261 min read

photo of white staircase
photo of white staircase

INITIAL QUESTIONS TO PONDER, IF I WERE A POET

Am I required to think that poetry is totally inspired?

That it flows, if at all, instinctively and with great gust

without any conscious effort to tailor the thoughts

and fashion the language?

Am I to await that faithful gust, and unconscious eloquence

to sort through and express these many seemingly convoluted thoughts

that keep humming in my head?

And the tuneless verses of music, still dancing in my soul?

Should I hope that this faithful gust of inspired intuition and wisdom

will not knock on my door at night, when fatigue has set in, and my eyes are tired

when my hands are asleep, and my mind, locked in an erotic dream,

awash in unspoken poetry, still?

But why free up a stated hour, if it is as reputed

to be such a forceful gust of unconscious eloquence?

Then I might well be knocked cold in drunken stupor.

Still, this force should dutifully cobble together

with dexterity and ease, those magical rhymes,

even from the cluttered state of my disheveled mind

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