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Based on Lucille Clifton’s “poets in their bassinets”
Poets are parents to their craft
Conceiving a concept-
some planned, some purely accidental- all appreciated
As the words go to page, the poem is born
full of potential
The poet nurses the little work in progress, nourishing it with tasty imagery and descriptors until it begins to fill into form from its tasty content
Soon it reaches the rough teen years in the form of revision
It’s hard as the poet has grown attached and doesn’t want the piece to change
(But it’s a part of growing up)
Workshopping will change the poem…but that’s okay
It means the work is reaching adulthood, ready to be performed and published out in the world
Just as its meant to be.