Kaleidoscope and Harpsichord

Kaleidoscope and Harpsichord My wife has a problem with any poem I give her to read for a second opinion especially when the poem has no message and my goal is simply to hear what I'm saying and not care if I understand it. As I have told her before, the meaning of any poem for me lies in the marriage of cadence and sound, little more. The other night in bed i gave her another poem to read and afterward she said it was no different than the others. She had hoped I'd improve. Reading it, she said, was like looking through a kaleidoscope while listening to a harpsichord. What more can a man looking for lines ask for in a wife than that? Donal Mahoney