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In Memorium
by john k zimmerman → (All Poetry by john k zimmerman)
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Poems still born

they came on like gang busters,

words tumbling over words

motif, and d images and story ling

the twenty thirty and more

lines that got murkier,

and more opaque as each line

eache stanza attached iteslf

here and there until

at length all heathy growth stopped                  

all that was left was

over fertilized rank growth.

naught to do but to lay it aside

these expensive failures

go back to the well and

to start again.

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "In Memorium"
Reviewed by Paul Judges
Reviewed on June 30, 2010
Very well expressed, John

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on June 29, 2010
Just have faith and it will come, but never give up...

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed by Christine Tsen
Reviewed on June 29, 2010
Love your poem! Writing the failures still occupies and pleases restless hands though ~ at least my beginner ones!!
Namaste,
Christine

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on June 29, 2010
Yes. Back to the drawing board as it were; thank you, John. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on June 29, 2010
I have had many starter poems, that never materialized further, Ed


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