Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Gestate. Do all poems gestate?

In the body? In the mind? Is "immaculate conception" or something similar, possible in poetry-making? I've heard poets speak poems on-the-spot, immediate verbal writing to awaiting ears.


A meal needs ingredients. Therefore, all meals gestate. The time varies.

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  1. kit,

    this poem did gestate, in the body and the mind,
    while walking and shopping chinatown. and with a
    little culinary poetic inspiration from 'poetry bites,'
    it's finally here:

    The Tea Egg

    Is not

    What it seems

    Marbleized veins

    Of

    Soy and Star anise

    To understand one must eat

    Yet to make

    Is the art

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  2. There's snow somewhere in the mountains

    some gulls, an egret, pipers and a balloon

    The fire blazes the rocks around lobsters

    and their faces leak the sea --

    someone's birthday seems mired in the air

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