After the poem

[PrinceMyshkin]

After the poem
comes the verbiage,
the slow leaking away
of inspiration,
the plea, as ever,
unanswered,
incomplete.

[Lokasenna]

Amen to that! Goodness knows I feel like that often, though you've put it far more succinctly than I could have!

[PrinceMyshkin]

Amen to that! Goodness knows I feel like that often, though you've put it far more succinctly than I could have!

Many thanks. The succinctness is important to me, though at times problematic, because it depends on the reader choosing to spend more than the very few seconds it takes to read the poem... I think of these short, somewhat epigrammatic poems as interactive ones.

[firefangled]

After the poem
comes the verbiage,
the slow leaking away
of inspiration,
the plea, as ever,
unanswered,
incomplete.


This seems to say the poem in excelsis is somewhat diminished in the telling, the kernel beyond expression or elaboration.

As Stevens wrote of the full moon in Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination: "An argentine abstraction approaching form/And suddenly denying itself away."

[Lokasenna]

Many thanks. The succinctness is important to me, though at times problematic, because it depends on the reader choosing to spend more than the very few seconds it takes to read the poem... I think of these short, somewhat epigrammatic poems as interactive ones.

Just because something is short, doesn't mean it can't be savoured. Brevity is, after all, the soul of wit! And you have, at least in my experience of your poetry, fully mastered the short forms.

[blazeofglory]

It seems something we get after reading the poem is expressed here very magnificently.