Simply Stated

     As we enter the second half of April, it is not always easy to find a poem in my fingers.  Others' ideas inspire me, but the words do not seem to be there, and so I wrote my feelings of today.  

I wish I could steal someone’s poem

that one with the beautiful words,

that tells of the endings and then

the beginnings, the insides and outsides,

the tales that are of lives,

their feelings and

heartaches

the loves

and the deep hates.

They can whip out the phrases

and find just the words to show

poetic accomplishment.

And although

the words are not mine

they might serve to

buy me some time

while I wait for the words so right.

(Do you know that I wrote all night?)

I wish I could steal just one rhyme

But I cannot; those words are not mine.

And-Remember to check on the Poetry Tag Group shown at the right!  And find Jama Rattigan's blog post at Jama's Alphabet Soup  to discover so many Poetry sites in the kidlitosphere doing wonderful things!  Cathy, at Merely Day By Day, is joining Mary Lee, at A Year of Reading in a poem a day this month. Other daily poem writers include Amy at The Poem Farm, and Donna at Mainely Write.  Plus Greg Pincus of Gotta Book has just published his first E-book, The Late Bird.  Now he's celebrating by giving one away.  See the blog that tells all about it  here