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In-Vitro

A poem-in-vitro is a slick and foamy thing
That will try to slink (or sink) away

So catch her quickly as she breaches, corral her
Across neurons like a schoolboy, wayward

By the ear.

Then drag it to the sunlight stage. That concrete cage.
Of language limpid, livid, living, liquid—

A place of permanence…
Where the ephemeral

Can play

If you but catch a fleeting fraction
Your poem may yet stay
Slick as a newborn calf

On its wobbling way

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Comments

Nice work. Poetry about a possible poem. Welcome to the site. I really like

“A place of permanence
Where the ephemeral

Can play”

Excellent lines. Keep up the good work.

Tim

I am primarily a rhyming poet, I see the beauty of this one. I particularly like the likening to a new-born calf. I can se a new-born poem sliding out of one's ear, and falling to the desk as a slick piece of work, ready to nurse at the breast of the writer. ~ Geezer.
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There is value to commenting and critique, tell us how you feel about our work.
This must be the place, 'cause there ain't no place like this place anywhere near this place.

Give peace unto the vessel that is ready to pour forth it's Abundance.

I envisage the great charming power of expression upload.
My regards to your intellectualism.

"By virtue of creativity, my literary genre is poetry".

~Jackweb

B.A. it is very nice to meet you. welcome to Neopoet! I really like the concept of this poem, and the presentation...very good! these are my favorite lies:

Then drag it to the sunlight stage. That concrete cage.
Of language limpid, livid, living, liquid—

(great alliteration, here) an all over great poem!

always, Cat

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