Understanding Poetry

a certain al dente to the line that gives up its sustenance without some sentimental mush but toothy, with crunch and crush a rhyme is good, but not all mattered more important is the view that's gathered rolled perhaps taste of bitterness battered with a delicate crust of wisdom spattered chewing on life's vagaries annoyances, intrusions and unease to swallow honeyed, sweet to please fresh-scented phrases of potpourri it's nice to turn a corner of stanza and find some pithy extravaganza of worldly view without propaganda a sublimely surreptitious word bonanza poetry just don't need understanding the test is really not that demanding only that the mind be a bit expanded and perhaps a smile notwithstanding © Goode Guy 2013-07-28