Poetry

Poetry

Poetry is like a small blue
 and green striped ball suspended in the air
 on a string and behind it, on a
 black wall, hangs an old mirror

 with an embroidered frame,
 and those who look at it stop
 Some awe and look at it from every angle
 with others scratch their head

 then move on.
 But for the few that stop and awe, there is a
 reward, for they are not ignorant
 and imagining some lunatic created

 this work of art, but a genius,
 because those that looked in
 the mirror saw that the other
 side of the ball was plaid, not striped.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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