Art
i'm supposed to be
a man of words
absurdly called
a poet
i believe the old lines
in rhyme are
i'm a poet but
don't know it
hoping that that is
public domain
so please don't
sue me
but I find myself which
is usually hard to
do but i did and
i was looking
through the dictionary
i don't need to
say "a" dictionary
because "the"
dictionary is the
bible meaning
book and so
is that other
one with Old and New
with Methuselah and
Jesus and his
twelve buddies
but I digress trying to
digest words to
describe her so
i randomly
opened and flipped
first finding heel
and toe which
is a good one
but then flipped to
find vertex and
then briney
but not
exactly how i would
describe her so
doing a stupid
thing i thought
i can play a melody and
sing harmony but
what would be
her key
and the pitch would have
to equal the quality
of her laugh if
that's not
enough so i looked at
other arts such
as culinary but
sometimes
she is saucy and spicy
but others she's
sweet and like
a fine wine
full bodied and yet
never dry so
then i tried
martial
arts and still couldn't find
her even in poetic
movements of
tai chi
so i went through all
of the arts which
basically is
everything
even the art of dying
then i realized
with pen in
hand had
been doodling all this
time so looked
at the paper
and found
not an emoji so still
hard to define
her but i had
drawn
a smile
with big
eyes of
wonderment
Copyright © Jeff Connelly | Year Posted 2019
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