Arlene Corwin writes

*Impetus For An Arlene Poem*

Impetus for an Arlene poem

Can come

From

Anywhere:

A phrase, a word, a letter

From a friend or alphabet-ter,

Bettering the source.

Any boost

Can force this chicken off her roost,

Any force create a course,

Any impulse impetus.

Wondrous is the geist creative,

Case that’s dative.

Speech from everyday,

Voiced and unvoiced vocabulary.

An Arlene poem

Reaches its home in a conclusion -

Something summing up the theme.

Simple words leading to rhyme,

Un-meteoric meter.

(She, confessed and plodding thinker)

An Arlene mind needs to combine  

Instruction, art and entertainment,

Synapse sparks from cups of coffee

Speeding up the poky brain incentive.

Sassy, saucy, brazen, shameless,

Truths so deep they must stay nameless.

All this to become a stanza capturing

The nature of death, age, romance,

The everything

Implicit in the impetus. 

*a quote from a Duane Vorhees letter.

 

 Continuum – Robert Hardgrave