Introduction to "letters."

My name is Jamie Lee Hamann and I started writing poetry on Hubpages back in 2013. Every year I share a poem a day in April.

A few introductory Ottava Rima from my new collection titled "letters."

I found Auden prior to my son's birth

his collected poems a gift from my Mom

an experience full of lasting worth

a meditation on producing calm

re examination of letters worth

a testimony or a private psalm.

An Ottava Rima to Lord Byron

to hear, from island, song of lost siren.

Among my sonnets wrote an Ottava

a letter to an artist I respect

written at coffee shops over java

an artful form who mastered the connect

an act that seems our desiderata

a dialogue who is forced to introspect.

Though iambs redundant with unwise rhyme

I stood back with pride for a short time.

So every April deep within routine

imagine letters from those I admire

to fill the pot with pre-emptive caffeine

prepare to write about two souls crossfire

to create my world from letter's daydream

including all the artists who inspire.

Or scientists in deep observation

philosophers working on causation.

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