By: Margaret Moore
Endless Beginnings
All these poems,
no conclusions
yet new poems emerge
by the book-length.
They mock me,
these poem lines of mine.
They all sit in one document,
in what has become a digital poetry journal,
I suppose.
Dates in shorthand separate them
as they perch between poems unfinished and finished,
some rough, some polished.
Lines of unfinished poems
stare at me intently
as I scroll to the blank infinity
of Google Docs.
Some at least
have an opening
and a middle.
Others are stray verses
possessing no middle
or end.
All have trailed off
into a mental note
to return with endings one day
as soon as inspiration strikes.
It now dawns on me—
Isn’t life just an unfinished poem?
Just ideas and happenings
that draw poets in,
coaxing lines into their minds,
then leaving them to wonder
What comes next?
The mind searches
for adequate words to respond
to phenomena surrounding it
as new developments
in the way of the world unfold
before the words have finished
emerging for the previous event.
Isn’t life just an unfinished poem?
An act of faith setting words in ink
knowing they’ll amount to a work of art someday?
Isn’t life just—
Bio: Margaret Moore
Margaret Moore is a 2020 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Fairfield University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English/Creative Writing. She is currently an MFA candidate with a dual concentration in nonfiction and poetry in Fairfield University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.
This year, Margaret holds a graduate assistantship through Fairfield University. She interns as an editor at Woodhall Press and serves as Managing Editor of Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose.
She also works as an ambassador for PRC-Saltillo. Her writing has appeared in Two Drops of Ink: A Literary Blog, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy, Independent Catholic News, Positive Writer, and How We Are, among other publications.
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