Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

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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Maurice Rigoler April 4, 2019 at 7:18 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 Caren Krutsinger April 4, 2019 at 7:59 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.

M. L. Kiser April 4, 2019 at 6:44 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. Caren Krutsinger April 4, 2019 at 7:59 PM And you are on vacation, which makes you a bit more lackadaisical.

Mahtab Bangalee April 4, 2019 at 5:38 AM true writings precede you; yeah; really Caren Krutsinger April 4, 2019 at 7:59 PM It truly does.

Honestly J.T. April 4, 2019 at 5:22 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 Caren Krutsinger April 4, 2019 at 8:00 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.