Prefer You Be Awarded

Before I become a poet who is extinct Want to be one who will be distinct Also distinguished and loud and clear Thank God Poetry Soup if finally here. I woke up without a poem in my head Now what should I have to do instead No one out there do I want to offend Will open Poetry Soup and then pretend. I wake up each morning and prayer say God into my mind place a poem today Sounding as if on a wonderful Wurlitzer Wanting to win prize called a Pulitzer. To you, this may sound kind of Germanic And is no where close to being Hispanic Careful is what I have just been told When you leap or reach for the gold. My clever poetry friends hope you savor Write many more poems, I will endeavor While you write poems, won't get in the way Prefer you be awarded with Poem of the Day. James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran