A Poet’s Pay

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Poems seem best done by a pen in hand.
| February 26, 2023

A POET’S PAY

A poet is paid a pittance.

This will not come as news.

One seldom dwells on remittance

when engaged with a lively muse.

A poem can take minutes or weeks.

It can live in the back of the brain.

There are valleys and glorious peaks

when the words start to rumble and rain.

A poet needs paper and pen,

or the thoughts may skitter away—

never to return again

and enliven another day.

Pat D’Amico is a columnist with Northwest Prime Time, sometimes a Sharing Stories author, and sometimes a poet.

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