Poetry Defined
**Disclaimer: This is strictly satire-tongue-in-cheek-written before I became a poet- sort of. An opportunity to laugh at myself but poets, rock!
Poetry Defined
Poetry is tedious
with its
silly syntax and similes and symbolism
and analogies and allegories and…alliterations.
Stein said, “a rose is a rose is a rose” until it isn’t, claims Magritte.
Why does it have to be
so…
abstract?
It isn’t a game show-
Don’t make me guess;
what has velvety concentric circles when dried creates
mind numbing potpourri?
Poetry is bouffant.
Marie Antoinette pompous and full of itself.
Rhythm and rimes- iambic pentameters or haiku
just tell me the story.
It’s laborious and lengthy-
ever read a short poem that said anything?
Poetry is frivolous –
all the skipping throughs and dashing off to sunsets
and crossing ponds.
It short circuits the brain and takes liberty with
punctuation and lack of paragraphs
with its stops and starts
and no periods or commas
to know when you can breathe again
or drift off or get a snack.
Never put an exclamation point in poetry! (exclamation point noted)
That’s excitement;
poetry is nonchalant; like a lazy tabby reposed on a tattered couch.
“ I’d rather not be analyzed,” declares the poet.
“I have a shrink.”
For me a simple story will do
like,
My “once upon time”
won’t really rhyme
and at the end
you will see
they can still say
“I love you”
without sitting under a tree.
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