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Need some feedback on a work in progress? Try the Poets' Coop's e-Group. Cut & paste your poem into this free "electronic bulletin board" for others to critique. To get your own creative juices flowing, maybe you just need to reflect on another's poem or to give our monthly Poetic Challenge a try. Come give some constructive criticism. Check back often to see what the others have to say or check the box to get an email whenever someone has commented.

Poets' Coop's E-Group Forum: A Virtual Writers' Group
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Re: The Gift


Thanks Irma.

I am truly honored and warmed by this poem.

~MD

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The Gift

for M.D.'s Birthday

by Irma Jackson









The gift can't be

wrapped, incubated under a tree



Genius is

a gift

not to be donated to the

Goodwill

until it's between the vest of a sky blue three piece suit

and a starched white dress shirt

among all the other possesions of physical life



Even then

the work lives on

Recorded to be shared

until English is extinct



and then

translated by archeologists

Republished

as profound ancient wisdom