Monday, September 29, 2014

REJECTION

He sent some poems away to magazines,
and soon they all returned with frowns, and said
they were rejected. He was sad because
they were his friends, these modest groups
of simple words, and so he set them in the light
and let them glow again the way they did
when they had first appeared inside his mind
like lilting dancers or singers singing songs
he’d never heard. They seemed to smile again,
these small unwanted poems, and so he smiled,
and then the world spun again and sent

him several new and tuneful twirling poems.

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