Tuesday Poem: "If a Poem was an Animal"

would it listen to night music

and be fascinated by shiny things

would the noise inside its head equal the noise without,

without colouring outside its lines and blacking out

its interiors

would it give free range to a

free range idea

would it pick up something from a previous life

a phrase, a word, a concept,

a jazz syllable secret

would it carry on as though nothing had happened

would it be something concrete

or ephemeral, an in-joke

a poem within a poem about a poem...

POET'S NOTE: This poem is written as a kind of tribute to the 3rd Birthday Poem on the Hub. Prior to writing the 3rd Birthday communal poem ( ongoing as you read this at www.tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com), we were kicking around ideas by email about our theme, subject and approach. There were a lot of great ideas (with 30 poets it's bound to happen) and many never got used. So this is my small way of trying to snag some of my fellow Tuesday Poets' ideas from the ether and give them flesh.

I'm two days late in posting this poem, but if you hurray on over to Tuesday Poem you can still catch many of the other fabulous Tuesday poems for this week.