ON HAVING A POEM POSTED
ON HAVING A POEM POSTED
by Randall Nicholas
Taking out a just scrubbed, dried
birdfeeding platform freshened with seed
to hang from its free-standing
arm in the driveway; already
two comments, one from a chickadee,
another from a squirrel,
give me a sense, in this sterling
mid-afternoon autumn light, that after
all I have hurled of my own
into the void of so many seasons,
I may finally be acquiring an audience.
There is a certain measure of validation that comes from someone selecting your work independent of incentive (aside from the merit recognized in it by an informed reader). Call it ” passing muster”.
it helps to get an outside opinion when you dabble in word play. I have heard it derided as just another form of submission. However, it beats the heck out of playing by yourself.
Keep socking away them seeds for later fellow cacheteer. Nothing wrong with saving the best parts for later.