Who Owns a Poem
Who Owns a Poem?
Could I call a poem – a poem
if I titled it as such
or would this egocentricity
cause the poets to turn on me?
Words - shifting sands - rolling stones
shadows cast by meatless bones
memory’s nostalgic noose
tormenting the bottled goose.
Three shelled game – poet as pea
always writing – never free
ink stained apron – wordplay runes
clandestine nom de plumes.
The pen sits mute atop the truth
expressed beneath its tip
manipulated poetic pawn
lost amid a coming dawn
Thrusting blindly at the night
stalking shadows in the light
scratching words in sand, on stone
for his poems he cannot own.
©6/17/2017
submitted to – The Creative Collective Anthology Series – Poetry Contest
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