I Did Not Write A Poem And Run Away Poem by Shalom Freedman

I Did Not Write A Poem And Run Away



I DID NOT WRITE A POEM AND RUN AWAY

I did not write a poem and run away
I did not wait for inspiration
And when it disappeared
Disappear also
I day by day
Wrestled with my own lines
I tried and tried again and again

I lived in poetry for years
And I wrote many poems
I no longer know the names of
I lived in this
I live in this
I am here all the way
I will stay as long as I can in Poetry
And when I leave or it leaves me
However meaningful or meaningless it is to others
I know I was true to it
With all my yearning and my pain.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Mike Smith 03 April 2016

Great perspective. You (sometimes painstakingly) made poetry and as a result, poetry made you

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