When poems write themselves <br />To save good eating for last <br />They refrigerate desserts but <br />Set them out a while to ponder <br />on blocks of delivered ice rapped <br />In preservative newspapers <br />Until Just before supper is served <br />Plates are stacked by older <br />Siblings the coal is stored <br />In the indoor shed for the evening <br />Warmth that is there to keep <br />Comfort before the blessings and <br />Bible reading verses are marked <br />The pages tucked the songs <br />We sing will themselves sung <br />From memory or hidden verse <br />By the unison that remembers <br />Opening sonnet words but <br />Drowns in long forgotten lines.<br /><br />Lee B. Mack<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-poems-write-themselves/
