Overleaf

Begin writing overleaf.
Over veins, pale traceries
Over stick and stone
And do not tear
Fragile green-ness of spring.

Begin writing overleaf
Start quickly, slowly
Don't stop, begin
Fresh ideas, newly sown
The seeds of your beginning

Begin writing overleaf
To place thoughts, gentle
With tip of blue ink
And set out all you feel
In scribbled panic of poetry.

Begin writing overleaf
Turn over your paper
Check the clock, breathe
Count to ten, calmness
And set yourself to mark schemes
To examiners and red crosses
Blank faced questions
And nothing left for poetry.