Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Here and Listen by Sarah Windisch

**guest post by Sarah Windisch*

From up here on my soapbox
Where it’s clear that everyone
Is a musician
Artist
Dancer
Poet
It’s so easy for me to brush off
The fears you have as
Excuses:

What if someone hates it?
What if someone hates me?
What if it’s not very good?
What if it’s actually really good?
Poetry isn’t for me.
At least not the me you know…

And then:

Why does it have to be in verse?
I think rhyming is the worst.

Or maybe:
This free-verse stuff is just
Lazy
Prose.

I guess that maybe I need to
Hear AND
Listen,
But only if you
Slip off those shackles
And come
To
Play.

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