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To: Billie; ST.LOUIE1
In the meantime...

The Poem

The poem rests inside my head,
Like carvings set in stone.
And all I have to do is cut away,
The words that aren’t my own.

Every singing bit of rhyme,
Is like a memory.
So all I have to do is shed,
The parts that aren’t me.

One thing I often wonder,
As I chop the chips away,
How much of me is taken with,
The message I convey.

With all the mass of messages,
The scriptings that I’ve cleft,
When I set out the last of them,
Will anything be left?

NicknamedBob . . . . April 6, 2004


347 posted on 08/24/2005 8:22:18 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (I am impervious to insult, being extraordinarily dense, rather like Superman.)
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To: NicknamedBob

LOL

I've seen this someplace. :)

Excellent poems. Thanks.


348 posted on 08/24/2005 8:34:08 PM PDT by JustAmy
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