A Warm-Up Poem Poem by Shalom Freedman

A WARM-UP POEM


Why a poem now?
Who needs a poem now?
There is no one waiting and no one wanting
A poem is a small beginning to a larger something else
For a writer who does not know what he is doing
Even a bad poem or lines which are no poem
Any writing
A warm-up poem in service of something else
A poem that might be ashamed of itself
If it had to claim any place in worlds of Poetry
Just lines
A warm- up
For now.