Flower Buds Picked Too Early Bloom Not Full Potential Poem by Terence George Craddock

Emily understood Emily Dickinson published
only about nine poems in her life while alive
the trap publishing early publishing too soon;

publishing too much publishing drafts unfinished
publishing green raw unseasoned publishing words
unreasoned unseasonal untamed too tamed beaten;

into flogged out over worked death spark dead pulp
early bloomer publishing too early late bloomer flowers
publishing too early words are like precious buds;

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