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Writer's pictureAnu Okikiolu

Poem #332 The Writer's Evolution


When I look back at the past

and all I have written,

my literary evolution is

clear for all to see.

From forced rhythms to

failed attempts at rhymes,

From forced metaphors to

some outright lies,

my mistakes were varied and wide.

But I have learned

from them all,

the rises and the falls.

I have learned to write

what I know and nothing more,

to listen to the voices of the quiet

and speak for them.

I reckon now that was the

point of all the mistakes,

it's better I make them

on my story than theirs.

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