A poet can always find something
To write a poem about.
Even the unlikelihood
Of finding something
Is something.
It would be like making a statue
Of nothing. What would you use?
And if a poet were to write a poem
About nothing, the poem would have to be
About the real nothing, which is the possibility
Of finding nothing. And that’s something.
The real nothing is the nothing
That doesn’t exist
The nothing that’s nothing but
Something that’s not there
And the poem would have to be about
The nothing that’s the poem about itself.
So it’s not that there’s nothing a poet can write about.
What a poet can’t write about is nothing.
About the Creator
John Welford
John was a retired librarian, having spent most of his career in academic and industrial libraries.
He wrote on a number of subjects and also wrote stories as a member of the "Hinckley Scribblers".
Unfortunately John died in early July.
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