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Date Posted: 13:57:32 05/06/01 Sun
Author: s.p. wells
Subject: Jeweler's Wish

Jeweler's Wish

I'm like a jeweler
polishing a gem.
Looking at it,
again and again.

For those imperfections
that first or thirdly, escaped my notice,
now needing to be ground once more,
then polishing to all it's glory.
Even then, sometimes I miss that tiny flaw.

I am sure, I am not, the only poet
upon reading and seeing in context
then changing their poem's words,
saying this and this, I must fix, of the text.

Change or delete a word or words
or move it around and about..
Is coma in proper place or should it be spurned,
what's that period doing there?

If have the time and I really care,
sometimes I do it to others, too.
Do not want their feelings to pare,
just want to show, their words are such incredible gems.

Maybe my words, can become part of
the sparkling necklace of poetry?
Or be a bridge to help brotherly love,
of what many feel, yet may not be able to express.

But for me, pray m'poems are up to standard
of what I want it to say.
Wouldn't mind for them also to pay,
if what I write, can touch one so.
Praying me for people not to split,
as in a "gerrymander".

SuSanne &*_*&
5 May 2001
[s.p. wells]
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Replies:

Re: Jeweler's Wish -- Fleurie, 15:32:53 05/06/01 Sun
Re: Jeweler's Wish -- Samantha G Kennedy, 09:05:49 05/08/01 Tue
Re: Jeweler's Wish -- Flying Colors, 12:04:52 05/11/01 Fri