SUPPORT LEXPOMO
sometimes i think there are more poets than poetry readers,
but that’s okay–
that doesn’t diminish the value of the poet or the poems
if anything, it is a reminder of the courage and strength
of the poets, who go on, creating the poems
few will read and
fewer will remember
but the poems will still be here–
once brought into this universe,
they have their place in spacetime,
just as do the pyramids in Giza
and Chichen Itza
i don’t write for you,
or my muse, or “the future”–
i simply write.
Let the chips fall where they may,
but they are my chips–
i was here, for a time,
and a part of me
will remain
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Totally agree, Laura. Writing a poem is always worth doing, whether anyone else reads it or not. Thanks for the reminder.
Wonderful reminder that the responsibility of the poet is the growing of the fruit and not its consumption. Hard to believe that Emily Dickinson’s poems weren’t known to many outside her personal circle. I wonder if her life and art would have been less satisfying (to her) if she’d gained more fame in her lifetime?