Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Old and Unselected Poems - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

Old and Unselected Poems

 

Why do publishers entitle volumes of verse

New and Selected Poems?

Is it the editors’ lack of imagination?

Or is it some sort of secular rubric

An inky “We’ve always done it that way?”

 

When you finish writing a poem it is new

It didn’t exist before you, and now it does

And someone who reads your poem has selected it

It wasn’t selected until someone picked it up

 

Every poem is forever new and selected

And to the joy of your friends, so are you

 

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