A Poem’s Conception

Like the beginning of a birth

The swarm of squirming words

opt for position

Knowing a one-word attachment

Creates the beginning,

Just as our human conception

Embraces the task of purpose

In seeking purchase.

The moment has arrived

Where lexiconic imagination through

Left-hemispheric order and control

Enjoins Right’s sphere of creativity

As a new addition begins its gestation

Into the population of words.

Patience rules identity’s progression

As attributes develop into essence,

Accompanied by sub-text of intention

Layering each accumulative sentence

Into stanzas of growth,

A time-dependent progressional experience

Where maternal and fraternal aspects of behavior

Start the poem’s journey of influence

To become generational contribution

Into the intellectual and emotional consideration

Of all that is

And all which may possibly become.

Oh, the resplendent reward

Of those initial moments of birth’s acknowledgment

The acceptance by a polyglot readership

Allowing a sensorial reaction

To influence their growth and understanding.

For…

A poem’s parental influence

Rests in the hearts and minds

Of strangers,

Acquaintances,

As well as family,

Even as the early moments of delivery

Subject the eyes that peer upon this new creation

With blinks of comprehension and self-evaluation

One may not have expected.

Might there also be before them,

Still wrapped in the poet’s swaddling comfort

Of love,

Commitment,

And purpose,

A heretofore unrealized insight?