The Quota of Ten

The Quota of Ten Oh, God! Help me to write something  touching and reflective today. To be concerned with inner truth. Not rushed, please help me ...to overcome my poetic arrogance. To not just post just anything to  meet the "Quota of Ten". But to have a poem with real meaning, A number fulfilled~ does not a great poem or poet make. It's rushed words on paper, that leaves me forlorn, empty and and me.... Feeling like a poetic imposter. I doubt any poet of note~sat down and rushed off to "pen ten"! This feels like a football game-)) Worse yet, each day of the year? Imagine Shakespeare doing such twaddle. It's a race to be popular here and what to call that..I am at a loss. A game of vanity~nothing more! ee Cummings in a whole lifetime wrote 700 poems of lasting veracity and depth! They last through the ages, he is one of the poetry sages we never forget. I wish there were no "Quota of Ten". I am no doubt considered weird and that's totally nothing new to me. Ten short poems any one of us can cook up! No biggie! There are magnificent poets here who understand that. They don't participate in this game, I so admire them~ so significant. And their poetry stands like outstanding mosaic works of word art, with a heart. Their poems so magnificent, they truly move my heart. A salute to them and their kindness to responses to comments God bless their compassionate and unselfish souls. To learn from you, is one of goals. Panagiota Romios 4/28/2019 8:30 am PST