Thursday, November 11, 2010

Contesting and risking

It's deadline time for numerous poetry CONTESTS
so I'm thinking of SUBMITTING once again.
Knowing I won't win, BUT what if I did?
If I DON'T enter, I'll never know. Will I?

So the work begins to REFINE a few lines,
hunt through old verses for something UNIQUE
that fits in a category. Then the LITTLE voices
begin...you're NOT a poet; and don't I know it?


Well what is a POET? Someone who wants to
EXPRESS themselves in words-that's ME!
So maybe I should say a poet in EMBRYO
or in TRAINING, and practice makes perfect!