Poetry For People

Golden Shovel

*A Golden Shovel poem is a poem taking a line from another poem (mine being the first line of "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman. You take the first lines and end your own line with the word. It's confusing but you'll see ;)*

I sing to myself and I 

sing to celebrate

yet for only myself

 to hear and

 While I really want to sing

for others and myself

but for who and

for what?

what good am I?

when you can only assume?

It's not like you

any of you, shall

ever hear me sing, only assume

It is so hard for

me to do when every

single atom

says that this voice belonging 

to my every atom, to

me, all of me 

says my voice is as

 good as the next, but it's good

and it belongs

fully and completely to

me and you

The original lines I used for the Golden Shovel:

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself

and what I assume, you shall assume

For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you"