Thursday, 2 July 2026

why write a poem

 why write a poem


why would you

strangle a poem at birth

drown it in hessian


thoughts come 

where would you send them

return to sender


poems happen

would you tear down the aerial 

un-dial the tuner 


poems are eternal

when everyone is dead

the poem will sit


for waiting to be read

read waiting

that’s why not 


~~~


look granddad

sit on the settee and shut up


or write a poem


we don’t care


but if you write a poem

i’ll read it

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