Every Poem

—Poetry by Joyce Odam, Sacramento, CA
—Photos by Caschwa, Sacramento, CA

 

 

Quartet of words,

Arguments and pleas—squabbles and
pronouncements—all we use
to entreat and tease—lawyers of opinions,
ministers of threats and coercions.

Poets of inabilities—users of dictionaries
and grammar—ever at the ready
for the brilliance of thought—
our thinking and our questioning

—letting words come to us—
we claim them, compose
stanzas with lines, rhyme at random.
Thrice we fail

until we reach fourth, another conception.
Every poem is a miracle,
 captured and named.

Original.

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Joyce Odam helps us celebrate National Poetry Month today with an Ars Poetica—many thanks for this, Joyce—and many thanks to Caschwa (Carl Schwartz) for his original photos—another form of Ars Poetica ~

•••Today (Sun., 4/10), 3pm: Lincoln Poets features Stanley Zumbiel plus open mic on Zoom at us02web.zoom.us/j/87466015982/. (Meeting ID: 874 6601 5982; Passcode: 766105). Host: David Anderson.

•••A reminder that July 21 is the deadline for the annual Voices of Lincoln Poetry Contest for youngsters and adults. This year’s theme is “People Are Everything”. Info: slolowe44.blogspot.com/2022/04/2022-voices-of-lincoln-poetry-contest.html/.

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—Medusa

 

 

 

—Photo by Caschwa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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