I love poems that grow
out of themselves
out of nowhere really
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This is just so odd...I posted a poem today that grew out of one phrase someone said in a letter to me...and as soon as I read it, the poem just 'GREW' without any prompting! Love this thought...like a bird dropping a seed. How wonderfully your garden grows, dearest Michael!
Michael, as you say, in truth poems simply grow, poets are just lucky to get to tend the gardens... Rgds, Ivan