ASSIGNING THE LINES-poem [F, 5-14-21]

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith & Life for the Years of Winter

ASSIGNING THE LINES-poem    [F, 5-14-21]

 [From my poetry journal of T, 1-19-21]

 

I don’t know who it is

but someone assigns

the poetry lines

to their respectable places

 

Perhaps it is God

or the muses

or an algorithm

developed by angels

working the angles

 

But like the water

that now exists

and has always existed

every drop right now

that is every drop

that has ever been

 

So every poem line

has existed from the start

of time, waiting

for its placement

Just the right time

The necessary place

The correct poet

The open poem

 

Hoping that its big break

will come

in a place pleasing

to the eye and ear

Hoping to be

the final line

The one recited

in the heart

 

John Robert McFarland