Friday, January 21, 2011

A title to my Poem

Can you give me a title to my poem?
A title to the familiar things unsaid
Give me a title 
To a poetry of words demanded
Spoken through the mouth of the muted
Speak to me words
Fit to place above the lines of phrases
When read, is full of blank spaces
Fill in the space of the title
For a poem doused with insight
That sits like a bird with no flight
Place before me the letters worthy
To form into a word or more
To sit above a poem 
Of words sweet to taste
But hard to swallow
Give to me the proper label
So strong but unfinished 
Like the tower of Babel
Give me the title to a poem
With words to dread
But empty
Like a child unfed
Can you give me a title to my poem?


-Valerie Anselme

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