The Lost Words
By Goldfinch60, 29th Oct 2013 | Follow this author
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This idea was from a line of poetry in Imtiaz Dharker’s poem “Thrown Away”
The line was:-
“Is there a place where all the lost words go?”
Poetry
You start a new poem with such eager ease,
The words flow like a torrent from your mind.
Then you read the rhyme that has formed,
On the paper in front of you,
And find the text,
Does not show what you meant.
Some words are changed from fresh ideas
That come from a new found river in your mind.
Yes that is better, you think to yourself,
As the page, shows the better sense,
Of the altered words
Read on this newly revised page.
But the words that you dismissively changed,
Garnered from the reservoir of your mind
And substituted for those more apt,
What happened to them?
Is it really that,
There is a place where all the lost words go?
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29th Oct 2013 (#)
your metaphorically poetry flows just as mine down the garbage drain goes
''maestro''
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30th Oct 2013 (#)
That is one reason I do not try poetry - having to give way to rhyming - siva
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30th Oct 2013 (#)
I don't worry about rhyming, I write my poetry as I feel it should be written.
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