Poetry Seminar Waves Poem by Bill Grace

After the seminar I realized there was more to it than
My favorite quote from Rilke:
"Go into the depths in which your life takes rise
There you will find the answer to the question
If you must create."
Public knowledge - public language; for poetry
Seems to be the necessary formula for balance.
Big questions I do not know enough to wisely ask
For starters back to Ciardi's How Does a Poem Mean?
Fifty years after news letter publications
I'm learning how to write a poem,
Asking a few deeper questions
About this business of being swept away.