Not a Poem
This is not a poem:
Poems rhyme
Like using sage in thyme
They make sense
The owl and the pussycat weren’t so tense
The poems have a meter
Ta-dah, ta-dah, ta-dah
Hoorah, hoorah, hoorrah!
Poems are about serious subjects
Racism bleeds the Earth of all its colors
Poems should have long lines
Well, you got me there
A poem takes us places
Helps fill in all the spaces
So if I want to poem
Just to sho-‘em
I’ll have to change my crafting
Or launch myself upon a rafting
So I might be taken seriously
By those who speak imperiously
I say this with a sigh
The worldly bar is set too high
I’ll turn to something else
I have my father’s wrench
Maybe I should try plumbing
(no, for me that would be numbing
maybe you
for a sou?
maybe us–that’s a plus)
C L Couch
Photo by Patrick Hendry on Unsplash
a poem takes us places
clcouch123 
March 13, 2020 at 5:12 pm
A poem can have several functions. One is to make the reader smile. You succeeded with this one. Purists would probably say it isn’t a poem because it rhymes or it has a rhythm or it doesn’t delve deep enough into the darkness of the id. Poems that anyone with a good grasp of the language can understand are poo-pooed by true poets who only praise poetry that rises above the understanding of the hoi polloi in fact rises above understanding period.