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I Is that a poem you’re writing? Do you know what you want to convey? Have you set your ideas in a list with their peers Ready to scribble away? II Is that a poem you’re writing? Have you chosen your meter and rhyme? Have you got the knack of trying to pack The words in and make them keep time? III Is that a poem you’re writing? Your pen poised over the page, Praying that Calliope enters your muse as she Has done with poets for an age. IV Is that a poem you’re writing? Has God above roused you to thought? Like King David at arms when he wrote his Psalms Inspired but never taught. V It that a poem you’re writing? Will the tale you scribe live on? In Bardic tradition an epic rendition, For centuries pondered upon. VI Is that a poem you’re writing? Will words give your notions flight, Or stay on the page, like Gibran’s “in a cage”, Only revealed to sight? VII Is that a poem you’re writing? Are you just going to let the words fly? And leave the verse blank, like grass on the bank Of the river ungroomed flowing by? VIII Is that a poem you’re writing? Is sorrow or passion your whim? Like me has desire ignited a fire That bursts from the soul within? IX Is that a poem you’re writing? Is the language you use esoteric? Do elaborate words fall meaning nothing at all, From your pen, but having no merit? X Is that a poem that you’re writing Do you think that you’re a real poet? Do you think ’cause a line, came out of your mind It’s a poem and others won’t know it? Now that you have got this far, leave a message and be a star! Thank you
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