Is a poem something static? Not a chance. The poem changes with each reading - telling us something new. They can be so simple that they mix up with the thoughts you have floating in your mind right then and there; to form a patina of poetry on your ideas.
Aside from that - it is actually possible to change a poem as it stands. Scientists are expected to change their ideas as they get more experience. I think poets can learn from that. So here is my first changing poem. It is about the sounds the coffee maker makes, and how they make you feel. I started writing a few minutes after the coffee maker started, and stopped when it stopped. I will try to do this successively, always trying to refine the descriptions of my experience. I leave this post as crude as possible, so that I have a bigger room for improval. Here is the poem:
I put on the coffe maker and the water boiler.
Only silence ensued. Then a quitet hissing as the steam broke through.
Then a lighter bubbling sound. It was the water boiling. I think it was the water boiling. At least there was strong steam - pulsing as if it was snake - and hissing like it too.
The water boiler.
Made a rumbling sound - exhaled and flashed it's teeth. I thought it was in the jungle.
I and the water boiler and the coffe maker. Rewound the time from then to now - and through boiling sounds brought coffee grounds from ground to drip - drip to coffee sound.
