Grannyjill
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When you've owned a poem for ever and a day
You cannot change a word of what you had to say.
It may need a re-write to help it on its way
As it suffers many defects. But it's no longer clay.
It's a baked like concrete statue saying 'I am here to stay'
When I receive suggestions from others on ways to improve my poetry, I often see how right these are - but only if a poem is fresh off my pen can I consider a rewrite. Older poems, though flawed, simply won't let me interfere with what they are. I suppose it is like giving birth to a child, imperfect though it may be, you cannot change it and eventually you realise you wouldn't have it any other way.
You cannot change a word of what you had to say.
It may need a re-write to help it on its way
As it suffers many defects. But it's no longer clay.
It's a baked like concrete statue saying 'I am here to stay'
When I receive suggestions from others on ways to improve my poetry, I often see how right these are - but only if a poem is fresh off my pen can I consider a rewrite. Older poems, though flawed, simply won't let me interfere with what they are. I suppose it is like giving birth to a child, imperfect though it may be, you cannot change it and eventually you realise you wouldn't have it any other way.