overleaf

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