How does a poem end?
“…such words, the richest fare…”
Finis
To make a race, I mind the end
and where to start the race, and when.
To craft a plan, the goal is key,
the outcome must be clear to see
To make a poem is not a race,
and not a plan, but what I face
is how to start—not how to end—
and what some musing may portend…
Some will say it’s hard to know
just what comes first and what fills in,
and what sings out, and what can spin,
and what must stay, and what can go.
The ending, though, is something rare,
a mystery while scribbles dare
to frame the poem, with rhyming, O!
…and then, such words, the richest fare,
in rampant form that lets me know
the poem is done—the end, just so—
the marvel: how my pen gets there.
July 2, 2018
This is not a tutorial on writing poems.
It’s just my story about writing poems.
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