Poetry Poems

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Poetry Friday is hosted by Jone MacCullough.

Find more from Sara Holbrook here.

At a recent poetry club meeting we talked about how poets often write about poetry. I shared Sara Holbrook's poem, "If I Were Poem" from Chicks Up Front, Michael Salinger's "Neon,"  "Ars Poetica" by Macleish and Niki Giovanni's "Kidnap Poem." I shared this list of poems about poetry along with a challenge: Write your own poetry poem. Here's my (unfinished) draft from that afternoon. 

Stuck, stuck, stuck
Sometimes poems come
flow from pen to page
like water finding
the lowest point.

Poems slide, slip, and surf
Gulf stream currents
skirting the coastline of dream
or memory, rhythms
made more vibrant
in metered rhyme

Sometimes poems
get stuck, stilled
like water in a retention pond
or a river dammed
ideas swirl and shift
fermenting, rising to the surface
like scum no  one wants to skim

Sometimes poems come.

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