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My Writing Precedes Me

I wish I had written the poem That everyone else has been trying to write. I wish I had written the masterpiece poem I know is in me, but is not coming forward To help me out. My name is not important. My rank is non-existent. But my writing, yes, my writing precedes me. And it shall survive my fleshly death It shall survive my everything death It is not that I am stressed, for it is not my way But I am impatient with the perfect poem I know Is somewhere inside my dendrite highway Waiting for permission But I cannot give that, for after it appears It will only be downhill, right?

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Date: 4/4/2019 7:18:00 PM
This has been the hope )and struggle) of many artists, not only poets – to write the perfect poem before the evaporate in death. The German poet Rilke waited some 12 years to start writing his masterwork "The Duino Elegies". And did it!!! / Keep writing, one never knows./ M
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/4/2019 7:59:00 PM
I feel this way about all of my art; especially my paintings which resemble each other so terrifically, I no longer have to sign them. Everyone who has seen them knows whose they are.
Date: 4/4/2019 6:44:00 AM
Right! Well...I don't know...maybe there are two or three or a million, maybe...but, then I'm a bit wishy-washey in the mornings.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/4/2019 7:59:00 PM
And you are on vacation, which makes you a bit more lackadaisical.
Date: 4/4/2019 5:38:00 AM
true writings precede you; yeah; really
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/4/2019 7:59:00 PM
It truly does.
Date: 4/4/2019 5:22:00 AM
Uhh... no, not really; if you don't just keep a journal or notebook; yet I understand your struggle to some extent; good poem -JT
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 4/4/2019 8:00:00 PM
Thank you JT - I have so many notebooks, I have probably thrown out as many stories as I have kept. Poetry is pretty new for me really.

Book: Shattered Sighs