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