THE SECRET OF MY POEMS--Editor's choice

THE SECRET OF MY POEMS



When friends ask me: “ What is your
Secret of poetry?
What is your inspiration?
Whence rhyme and symmetry?”

I say when my heart sings a
Happy or plaintive song,
On its own it is then that
My poems come along.

That is why they have a rhyme
And have a certain flow.
If they are from the heart, then
Only to hearts they go.

I say that my poems are
Written without forethought.
My poems are nothing but
Sad feelings and tears hot.

It’s when those tears fall on a
Crumpled sheet of paper,
They shape into a poem,
Poet’s only treasure.



* Written in abcb 7-6-7-6 format

• Editor’s choice in Poetry Newsletter, 4 July 2007.


* Related poems:

o "WHAT IS POETRY?—a sonnet" 
o "POETRY: an addiction" 



M C Gupta
29 March 2005