FROM THE PEN OF A NON-MFA CANDIDATE / John Grey

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Sheepshead Review, Stand, Poetry Salzburg Review and Ellipsis. Latest books, “Covert” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Washington Square Review and Red Weather.

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I never took

a poetry class.

No one has ever stood before me

and pronounced the magic words –

“This is how it’s done.”

The result is

I don’t know how it’s done.

 

But I write the stuff anyhow.

No one taught a tree

how to spread roots and grow tall.

Despite no previous instruction,

the wind blows.

The stars twinkle

without a diploma on their walls.

 

So I spread and grow

and blow and yes,

sometimes I even twinkle.

I’m reasonably pleased

with the results.