A poem

[heslopian]

A poem
is not a word game, with an answer
written upside down in the right-hand corner of the page,
below the crossword puzzle.

You should not have to read a poem
and say 'oh. So this is what I'm being told.'

A poem that makes no sense for me but, 
when read aloud (or silently),
has that sweet and intoxicating scent...
that is a poem.


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[ellajam]

A poem is not a baited hook
__but a fish circling,
____nibbling the swaying weeds
______and shimmering its way upstream.

[Weeded]

This is the hardest part for me

[heslopian]

Damn you, ellajam, comin' over 'ere, improvin' on my original thesis... GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM! *shakes fist*

[ellajam]

This is the hardest part for me

I think that's the hardest for most of us, to have the poem rise above itself into something else, something that resides in the reader, stirring a bit of magic.

Damn you, ellajam, comin' over 'ere, improvin' on my original thesis... GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM! *shakes fist*

but, but, I forgot to say how much I like your poem, and that inspiration is the highest form of flattery, and that I am dead dry on NaPM today and find it preferable to be elsewhere, on top of which how sad to not be enthusiastic about writing about euphoria.

please, have mercy.

Oh, and I think without L5-6 the scent would be even more delicious. ><

[RiverNotch]

A poem is not a baited hook
__but a fish circling,
____nibbling the swaying weeds
______and shimmering its way upstream.

A poem is not a baited hook,
but The Baite

[ellajam]

A poem is not a baited hook
__but a fish circling,
____nibbling the swaying weeds
______and shimmering its way upstream.

A poem is not a baited hook,
but The Baite

ha, seems I don't even get my own allusions.

Lovely except for my stubbed my toe on
"If thou, to be so seen, be’st loth,
By sun or moon, thou darken’st both,"
Though I can see how one might get used to it.