
An attempt at existentialism. For some reason, “rimy ground” has always jumped out at me as being perfectly placed here.
Many times the way I start a poem
Is by thinking first of its name,
Some playful twist of words will do,
Or maybe a bold, colorful claim.
Like the way a jockey’s riding crop,
Whips him across the rimy ground,
That’s what a clever title does for me:
It sends me snorting for the Downs.
But more than that, a name may coax
People to actually read
The illuminating lines that follow —
Lines quite similar to these.