April 2018
I am the author of seven poetry books. I have poems featured in numerous worldwide publications , including Prairie Poetry, The Heron’s Nest, Poems Niederngasse, Newtopia, and Barefoot Review. My hobbies are golf, reading whatever book happens to catch my eye, and gardening. I currently reside in Topeka, Kansas.
forming a poem
people ask me to explain
composing a poem
i answer with
it’s like music and love making
descriptive word sounds
passion without bounds
the footprint of a soul
separately contrived
conceived as one
melting into everything
and nothing simultaneously
together and alone
until it is formed
like birth and death
rolled into one
and someone says
“it’s just a poem”
i smile and nod politely
imagining him as the prospective patient
of a large-knuckled
proctologist
© 2018 Robert McManes
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