Shawn L. Bird

When did I become a poet?

Was I not born a poem

Washed into the world on sorrow & pain

Spun thru desire?

Do poems require words

or only bodies?

Each life is a poem

unfolding without words

that every lover reads

and feels deep in the soul.

Every mother is a poet,

birthing baby poetry.

For

We are born as poems.

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in lieu of the Golden Shovel poem I meant to post from yesterday’s NaPoWriMo prompt.  I’m still not finding a poem I want to use as the inner poem.  I wonder if a stanza of another poem will suffice?  Otherwise I’m looking at mile long poems!