on writing a poem
text © Raj Arumugam, June 2008; paintings by Nicholas Roerich

1
there are poems
as numerous
as leaves that ever come and go
and that have ever shriveled
and that are yet to come;
as numerous as grains of sand in the world
as stars in the skies
and as beings that have come and gone
and that will ever come;
as numerous and uncountable are there poems
2
there are numerous poems
uncountable:
and why should this be written?
3
there is an infinity of poems
anonymous or top of the charts:
and why should this be read?
now or ever?

Here is the link to womanslove's poem in response:
http://poemsoflife.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/06/what-and-why-i-write.htm

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