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VAS
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since 2000-11-16
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0 posted 2001-06-06 12:34 PM


Why?
Virginia Salter

why do you write
oh, Author?
Why do you put pen to the page,
plume to the canvas
key to the pad

is it to be read?
who’s reading?
is it to be fed?
who’s feeding?
is it to use ink,
energy, power, space?
why do you, oh writer, fill up reams
reams of paper
reams of rag
why do you play with words
like chasing in tag?

this writer has written
with dreams oh so grand
that readers would teem across this fine land
this writer has written her heart, her soul,
yet nothing at all seems to make her feel whole

she feels perforated
with uselessness
riddled with arrows
shot in the night
anguished and strafed
blown out of sight

there’s no reason to be
racked with such thoughts
the One who has made her
wouldn’t have her distraught

so why does she linger
in thoughts filled with pain
why can’t she find
the color after the rain?

© June 5, 2001

© Copyright 2001 Virginia Salter - All Rights Reserved
Logan
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since 2001-05-28
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Arkansas
1 posted 2001-06-06 12:53 PM


maybe because we never feel completed, we are driven regardless of what we say and write, to goals set for us in the breath of life that was blown into us...very provocative write..enjoyed very much...gentle smile
JLR
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since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785

2 posted 2001-06-06 01:12 AM


VAS---Tonight finds me wondering the same.  Though, when I read your poem I wanted to jump up and say...but YOU have to write.  I can't take the loss of one more poet, ok, I'm selfish, I've been worse, believe me!  
VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon
3 posted 2001-06-06 02:10 AM


thank you both for being here, for reading, for responding, thank you both so very much!
kaile
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4 posted 2001-06-06 06:02 AM


interesting poem, VAS..are you still wondering about the lack of responses you might have received and thinking that there is no reason why you should write if this is indeed the case??

if some of my reasoning is true, well you can always count on me

Write On!

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