Two years ago yesterday, I posted a poem called “writer’s song,” which you can read here. I came across it today and noticed a comment from my friend Carolee about a way to revise the poem. So I made some revisions. The new version is posted below. What do you think?
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writer’s song
I stand against despair
each stroke of the pen an affirmation
as ink flows into the paper like a transfusion
the arteries of the world full once more
I acknowledge dreaming
caressing the soft flesh of possibility
a gentle kiss, like an afterthought
or the smell of cookies baking
I assert my Self
one human being in a fragmented age
a hand-brake on the spinning world
an extra moment to bring life into focus
I say “I love you”
and let “you” be all the world
six billion diamond-bright minds
flowing over the earth like water
I throw a rope to a drowning man
on shore and in the water simultaneously
I take sorely needed oxygen in my lungs
to power the dreaming blood, to sing this song
5 December 2012
Auburn, AL
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