I LISTEN TO THE LINE I WAIT TO WRITE <br /> <br />I listen to the line I wait to write <br />I hear myself speaking the poem to myself. <br />What I write <br />Comes from somewhere else <br />Inside myself <br />Perhaps beyond. <br /> <br />I take these words down <br />Which appear right before <br />I say them <br />Which appear <br />As I say them. <br /> <br />Is what I am doing ‘Poetry’? <br />Or is it merely my own illusion <br />Of what I am <br />And what Poetry is? <br /> <br />God gives and God takes. <br />Will God make these lines too <br />What they are not now, <br />And yet?<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-listen-to-the-line-i-wait-to-write/
