Unfinished
Poem
Today, I
am the poem I finally have the courage to finish/each line more interesting
than the next. (Joe Brundidge)
(this 2nd
poem is a re-write/edit of the first one inspired by the lines (above) off the
post on Joe Brundidge’s page, December 8, 2011, and uses the lines as a prompt into
the poem)
Courage
has finally found me
On
mark/get set/ready on the line
Stretching
to finish a poem
I am
becoming
Each line
more interesting than the next
None more
important than the last
In this
rhythmic moment
I am verse/ink-filled
method
And
madness/water tumbling
Over rough
places
Sounds
thundering over
Smoothed
out similes
I am
metaphor
Sunshine
bright/sharp light
Breaking
into dark spaces
Pushing
myself to see
This world
for all its worth
I am an
uneven line of rhythm
No
rhyme—an underscore
And
exclamation point
Syncopated
beauty, chaotic
Italicized
truth
—Life turns on a dime and still I see your
face in every cloud—
I am an emphatic
mess of an ode
a range of
meanings
a double
entendre
triple
indemnity/your best bet
strong
verb modified intensity
a ‘what
did she say’ glance backward
question
mark in the middle
of a
sentence not yet written
worth
reading more than once
words
worth rolling over tongue
spoken out
loud in the rain
screamed
in delight in every season
and I am the
poem I finally have the courage
to
finish—on mark/get set/ready…
© Valerie
Bridgeman
A what did she say glance backward. Yes
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