Monday, February 18, 2019

Poem: Experiencing Other People’s Poetry (Slightly Revised)


I dip in and out of books
Like a toy bird dunking
Its felt beak into a glass of water
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Watch YouTube videos from venues
Where I would feel inadequate, unwelcome 
As the poet reads to the unseen audience
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Compare their work with my own
Can’t quite leap the hurdles in my mind
Hoping osmosis will take effect
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Or at least greater confidence 
In what I’ve learned
In what may eventually emerge

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