Tuesday Poem: I want to write a poem like Billy Collins does

I’d start with an incident

or observation about ants

angels, a wet dog, hats

or note an object in my life

in the kitchen, on my desk

its relativities to writer’s block

woods, or kings.

I’d quiz its antecedents

linking odd things

with poetic velcro

fixing the words

on leaves just so

juxtaposed to score a grin

or make you think –

I would never

have thought about

the man in the moon

marginal notes

or undressing

Emily Dickinson

like that.

I'm a great fan of Billy Collins poetry and find it very accessible, funny, and a great motivation source (particularly when I, or someone I know, have writer's block').

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