The Value Of Having To Write A Poem Or Two Poem by RIC BASTASA

don't you know
that i always feel so alive
after writing
a poem or two?

it is as though
i have not exhaled for years
as though
i have only learned to inhale
at this moment

cool fresh air fills my lungs
a dance song in my heart
aerobics for my veins
a view of the landscape of rivers
and hills and a house beside
with chimney
blowing its smoke for
the breakfast menu

at night the moon is full
and the birds are tightly asleep
all these are in my mind
after a poem or two.