Nothing To Say

Sentences that make no sense, Words that are likewise afflicted. Messages that are at best dense, A vessel of verbiage is depicted. Such is the state of modern verse Designed to be deciphered by no one. I doubt it can get a syllable worse, Though I speak not of all, only some. Shouldn't a poem present meaning? Shouldn't it have something to convey? Should I care what a poet is dreaming If his/her dreams have nothing to say? Lofty, soaring phrases are meritable, Unless composed at wasted expense. To abide them one must be charitable, Then seek a poem premised on sense.