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Recycle Your Unused Ideas!

 

From notebooks and desk drawers,
from folders and files,
from pockets and teetering tabletop piles,
gather your scribbles,
your notes and your jots—
ideas that don't fit your poems or plots.

 

Shred if you must,
or just toss them in
the helpful, convenient
recycling bin.

 

In bins, in trucks, in recycling plants,
snippets combine, completely by chance.

They'll evaporate into the bountiful air,
ready for someone to notice and care.
Ready for someone awaiting a muse.
Ready for someone to snatch up and use.

 

Every idea deserves its own spot—
a real home in somebody's poem or plot.
So make room. Set yours free!
They'll be wondrously new
to someone who's paying attention

like you.

 

—JoAnn Early Macken

 

Today's Poetry Friday Roundup is at Carol's Corner. Enjoy!

 

JoAnn

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