Capturing
Lines of poetry
Before they fall
To the ground and
S          A    T    
     H               T      E  
                                    R
Into a mumble-jumble
Of meaningless letters

Trying to figure out
What I am feeling
What I want to say
In this
S                L
    W       R
           I
Of intangible emotions
That I must put to words

Us poets understand
That crawling feeling
The need to get feelings down on paper
To make sense of what we
DON’T
               KNOW.
What we want to know
Before the thought slips our mind

Poems are creatures
They are extremely shy
And when they come to you,
They will escape as fast as they can
Write them down before they leave
You must be their only escape
From the torturous world
That they come from