The Thought of Poetry

All you need:

One

Simple

Thought

Pour it from your mind,

Feed it to the pen –

Ready to write?

No, not yet.

Filling its files with imagery and

squeezing the metaphors out of life -

Imagine that.

Personifying the perfect and

imperfect into a persona.

Mixing memories of red and

dreams of blue

to construe

the fact that

I knew you

is now

Black ink

Carrying the bittersweet baggage

called Blues.

Glide it through the point

but the point is poetry -

to bleed from the mind and

be stained with words.

All you need - the thought of poetry.