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Sometimes

by Chris Sorrenti


Sometimes it seems
There’s a need to write poetry
When the poet is no longer the poem
Each day a lost set of stanzas
Gasping in forced rhyme
When one writes poetry
Sometimes
It’s all the poetry he or she really needs

© 2007

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10/28/2007

Author's Note: An inverse companion piece to the poem Sometimes Not in my library, Steel Clouds.

Posted on 10/28/2007
Copyright © 2024 Chris Sorrenti

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Coleman Demiurge on 10/29/07 at 08:25 AM

Your poem "Sometimes" is quite good, but I think this one is even better. The lines that got me the most were "Each day a lost set of stanzas/ Gasping in forced rhyme"... So very true. Excellent work!

Posted by Morgan D Hafele on 10/29/07 at 03:49 PM

the 2 poems really compliment each other i think because sometimes there is a need and sometimes it just is. i like how sometimes is the key word, it feels almost zen to me, the way they kind of just shrug and accept. great pieces!

Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 10/31/07 at 01:29 AM

Sometimes, indeed! Another universal observation on the writing of poetry and on being a poet!

Posted by Jean Mollett on 11/01/07 at 05:24 PM

Hi Chris, Good one. How true.

Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 11/01/07 at 11:55 PM

...and we need it as much as we need light, though the explaining is much harder. Thanks.

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