On Free Verse
I must be -- me
to be not, would be
contradictions more foul than those in D.C.
irrelevant, you chastise
make your feelings relate
to be a poet
but is not the message
created by my pen
poetically fulfilling for me?
if my precepts
offer no memorable revelation
for you
you may not understand
now
or ever
never having viewed the Alps
illustrated travel folders
generate no sighs
yet pen in hand
drawing in a deep breath of truth
feelings
your mind
camera candidly clicking
world exposed in free style
awaken
meter petered out with cursed verse
confined rhyme
precept message
a goal sought
sometimes conveyed
spare the structure; paint the picture
sharp strokes of emotion
live through the Creator
*For John Freeman’s “Your Free Verse Precept” Contest
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