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Inspiration (A Choka)

November 21, 2011
By ThePoet GOLD, Jacobus, Pennsylvania
ThePoet GOLD, Jacobus, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
Credo qui absurdum est- I believe it because it is absurd.


Do not lower those
Buckets for inspiration.

The muse is no well,
Well I know, it guides me still.

Those cresting brainwaves
Ride an ocean's torn surface.

Below the tempest I swim
And write back home about it.


The author's comments:
This poem is inspired by Emily Dickinson's work, and is in the traditional Choka form.

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