I don’t care about trying to publish
any of my poems in a magazine
I just post them here on my blog for myself
like a daily mental workout for my mind
I’ve no interest in a lot of attention
if thousands or even hundreds came here daily
I’d get a little uncomfortable
besides even if poets become the
greatest poets of their day
when enough time goes by
decades, hundreds, thousands of years or more
they are forgotten, as if they never wrote poems
I don’t care about any fleeting legacy
for any of the poems I write
and even if I had started writing poetry
at 16 instead of 76 and became well known
I’d probably be known for a poem or two
and forgotten not long after I died
and from what I’ve seen, even famous poets
are often known only for a few of their hundreds
or thousands of poems they write
so I’m happily obscure and unknown.
Bob Boyd