If my voice is not reaching you
add to it the echo—
echo of ancient epics
Afzal Ahmed Syed‘s poem “If My Voice Is Not Reaching You” offers such a great opening stanza. A poet can go almost anywhere with those opening lines and a reader will follow with intrigue.
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I must try that some day in a poem…but for now I can only say it worked well for you…thanks for the post.
Thanks, but those lines are from Afzal Ahmed Syed. I can’t take credit for such wonderful lines. But I enjoyed how Ray Gonzalez begins his poem with a couple lines from Rexroth and the flies off in his own direction. So, I thought other poets and writers may be able to do the same thing with opening lines of the poem “If My Voice Is Not Reaching You.”