Today is Poem In Your Pocket Day

In the spirit of #pocketpoem on twitter, I share this.

Defining Success

Each day I write a little something, believing one day

a wordsmith's bullet will hit the target. It isn’t easy,

resurrecting dormant vocabulary and proper punctuation,

diagramming feelings into prose and poetry;

however, I shamelessly aim for heartfelt truth

and fire off simple rounds. If the only upshot

my writing accomplishes is to cause the reader

(yes, you!) to realize you have much to say,

then, my posted ponderings become successful

when you set pen to paper, fingertips to keyboard,
and shoot your words into the bulls-eye.

Cathy Safiran

March 25, 2012