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# Just One Line
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/just-one-line/
- Published: 2022-05-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-05-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: I begged my muse: one line, just give me one! Just one to rival those that came before. Creating a cliché before I'm done is my ambition -- do not wish to bore my audience to tears. I do abhor the poems that say nothi...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

I begged my muse: one line, just give me one!  
Just one to rival those that came before.  
Creating a cliché before I'm done  
is my ambition -- do not wish to bore  
my audience to tears. I do abhor  
the poems that say nothing that is new,  
or worse, failing to get that less is more,  
preach to the choir with a point of view.  
Wish I could show what I know to be true,  
that telling doesn't work, but showing does,  
I've said enough, it's time to say adieu,  
This sonnet, so it seems, ran out of gas.  
The muse, as usual, ignores my plea.  
Goodbye, goodbye, it's time for me to flee.