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Due Consideration (Free verse) by Dovina

An urgent whisper rises strained I hold it back hold breath Could it sound or only crack trying To restrain that unborn word might forfeit all To give voice, gain too much and what if that whisper isn’t ‘No’? After due consideration I ignore reason Better to take whatever pain release breath and thereby know

ALChemy 22-Nov-05/1:56 PM
No I really think this does for timid poets what the Heimlich maneuver did for choke victims.




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