Day eight of the NaPoWriMo/GloPo challenge has arrived.  The challenge for today? I am to write a poem that relies on repetition.  After a day of zoo, butterfly garden, White River State Park and Star Trek: Beyond, it’s a bit hard to think in terms of repetition.   But, need I repeat myself? Indeed I do.. repeating myself is the challenge.  What to do about a day in which it was a little too obvious that everything is the beginning of a poem?  I suppose the best thing to do is to give a nod to Li-Young Lee and admit just that.  That:

Everything Is the Beginning of A Poem
by Michael Romani

Everything Is the Beginning of A Poem

Every little sound
All the sights that abound
All the love that is around
All that I revel in 
Everything that does surround
Taking me back again and again

Everything Is the Beginning of A Poem

All the mental places I try to find
All the little places that I've left behind
All of these impressions on my mind
All that I revel in
All of this kind and that kind
Taking me back again and again

Everything Is the Beginning of A Poem

My world fills with saturation and meaning
My world drills deep down into my dreaming
All so real, yet surreal and yet seeming
That all that I revel in
Stream of consciousness streaming
Taking me back again and again

Everything Is the Beginning of A Poem

I write out of love and I write out of fear
I write of my joys while shedding a tear
I write of the far wanting to keep it near
That all that I revel in
Day in, Day out; year after year
Taking me back again and again

Everything Is the Beginning of A Poem

(c) April 8, 2017 Michael Romani