They Lived Without Poetry

She liked Coleridge, the poet and the man. He enjoyed Sidney Sheldon and Edgar Allan Poe She was a Whitman and Emerson fan. He liked her enthusiastic glow. He thought words were silly. He used them sparingly. She recognized he was a dilly. Flashing his assets caringly. She offered to help him write However, poetry was not his thing. He saw her loveliness was out of sight And decided to make himself her king They agreed to share other things Not books, for on that they did not agree They lived happily, without strife or clings For they gave each other freedom to simply be…..