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Welcome to OpenLinkNight everyone. This is your opportunity to link 1 poem of your choice to share with our community.   For those who missed the Mr Linky deadline the past week or this Tuesday’s poetics, this is also your opportunity to share your poem.  We would appreciate those linking up to include a link to dVerse as a courtesy.

There is no specific form or theme required for OLN but if you are looking for a little inspiration, here is an optional mini prompt:

The Uncertainty of the Poet

Giorgio de Chirico
  1. Use the image above as a muse for your poem. Write an ekphrastic poem.
  2. Or use the title of the image as a title or part of your poem: The Uncertainty of the Poet.
For further inspiration:

Heaven Is Not Verbose: A Notebook

Why poetry is like earthworms, thought is like cud, and understanding is like insanity.
By Vera Pavlova
Translated By Steven Seymour
Originally Published: April 02, 2012

My writing: hard-boiled. My life: scrambled soft.
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There are moments when I feel the universe expand.
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Mandelstam: “Poetry is the certainty of being right.” Brodsky: “Poetry is the school of uncertainty.” I am not certain about either assertion.
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Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.
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Time is like a diatonic scale: it consists of major and minor seconds.
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Pick a piece of wood floating in the river and follow it down the current with your glance, keeping the eyes constantly on it, without getting ahead of the current. This is the way poetry should be read: at the pace of a line.
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Went to bed with an unfinished poem in my mouth and could not kiss.
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Inspiration: when I have confidence in myself.
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To help a poem hatch, I went to get some groceries. Paid the cashier, got my change, came home with a finished poem and no groceries.
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How do I feel about people who do not understand my poetry? I understand them.

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