Theme
3:43pm October 19, 2014

Ambivalence

I don’t think that this poem is good enough to send
It’s clunky and it doesn’t get its point across too well
But does it really matter if I think so in the end?

Five poems on ambivalence I’ve written in the end
Five poems on ambivalence, deleted, all, and quelled
I don’t think that this poem is good enough to send

I’ve made too many mistakes, it’s impossible to mend
From those corners of my mind where the bad ideas dwell
But does it really matter if I think so the end?

Each one had lofty metaphors that I myself had penned
But each was missing something, that even i can’t tell
I don’t think that this poem is good enough to send

I suppose if I worked at it, a poem could transcend
The ambivalence that so far has sounded its death-knell
But does it really matter if I think so in the end?

A poem about a poet who cannot comprehend
Whether or not to publish, is a perfect parallel:
I don’t think that this poem is good enough to send
But does it really matter if I think so in the end?

[Also posted at my main poetry blog, which has a comments section.]

[This was part of an ongoing writing game I’m playing where people send words or short phrases to my inbox and, as long as the person isn’t trolling me, I do my best to write a poem, or fiction, or nonfiction, or just about anything, about the topic. I can’t make any promises about finishing things, or doing it within a certain time period. It’s just a fun way to challenge myself to write more, and on topics I wouldn’t necessarily think up on my own. Such asks are welcome pretty much indefinitely.]

This came from an anon, and the topic was “ambivalence”.