John Lawless Poet Verse

I will not write a poem today

I will not write a poem today
I won’t – I won’t – I won’t
I’ll defy the metered merriment
Declare the thymes – all crimes
My challenge to the metaphor
An inky gauntlet on the floor

I wlll count no syllables
As I ride the “silly” bus
Nor sound the drum roll of
Repetitive alliteration
For words, like pizza slices
Are the best of poetry’s devises

And yet, it seems, a single phrase
Emerges from the dark through greys
Of lifting fog and dancing haze
Revealing fields where poets graze

I will not write a poem today
The poem will write itself…

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Ink Empress August 7, 2024 at 4:25 AM Your poems always make me smile, for some reason, this is brilliant. And i felt this, somedays we just let poetry writes for us, and theres no need to count syllables and find perfect meter. Just go with the flow: theres space for every shade and color and flavor of poetry in the world of words. Sending you light always

Gershon Wolf August 6, 2024 at 6:56 PM Ha, ha! Love the ending, John. By the way: It's 'I SHALL not write a poem today.' ... I shall, you will, he/she/it will. LMAO ~ Septuagenarian Grammarian

Hilda Greenhough August 6, 2024 at 5:33 PM Nice poem. I think a poets go through the day rhyming words. I can't stop. Thanks for this poem.

Darlene De Beaulieu August 6, 2024 at 3:10 PM Hello John Lawless, Wow!! Is all i can say. Enjoy your evening my friend. / Darlene/

Andrea Dietrich August 6, 2024 at 12:27 PM AWESOME! a fave

Daniel Henry Rodgers August 6, 2024 at 8:38 AM Hello John, What a clever poem. It is so true that poetry often writes itself, transcending the writer's initial intentions or resistance. Loved Reading! - Blessings, My Friend, Daniel

Paul Willason August 6, 2024 at 5:44 AM An entertaing, humorous and clever insight into the miracle of the "making"...capping it off with an observation only a good poet understands... "The poem will write itself " as indeed many do. I admire your dedication to practice of poetry John...your poems speak it.