Sally Eslinger Poet Free verse

Poem Two

I quit writing in 1983, for 35 years no poems, diaries zip. In 2018, passion sent me the poem on my list, “Gone.”  Then in 2019, a new friend asked me why I quit poetry and I wrote this poem to answer him.  The poetry has not quit since.  The Voice must speak!POETRY II

Poetry can be a wretched torture.  It
Commands a dive into the depths
Of the emotional-intellectual-spiritual soul
In order to conceive to climb then
Its mountains, peaks:
Consumption.  Communion.  Voice.


*****(c) sally young eslinger 2019

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Caren Krutsinger January 9, 2021 at 9:34 AM I quit writing for 35 years also; so this amazed me. It seems like such a coincidence. We are now making up for lost poems, Sally! Well done! Sally Eslinger January 14, 2021 at 11:17 PM Didn’t now you went thru years of Lost-Voice! Yes, so much now pouring out. I thought of proposing that quitting for a quarter century will cure writer’s block. Hahahaha sad but true! LuvU

Jan Allison January 9, 2021 at 12:11 AM I'm so glad you are bringing your words to us after such a long break Sally, the joy of poetry is you can dip and dive into it when the muse strikes:-) hugs jan xx Sally Eslinger January 14, 2021 at 11:21 PM Jan, simply...Amen...oh and the joy is life itself. We are poets!