HOW TO ENTER A POET’S WORLD

 

How, pray tell,

Does one enter poetry?

Or is it possible

that poetry enters

or chooses

One?

 

Funny how one

who never was much into such

can most unexpectedly

find self

in

to

Poetry.

 

Part or much of that

was because

it was perceived

that

Poetry had to rhyme.

That myth turned out to be slime.

 

Then there were

these schools

such as sonnets,

haiku

or tanka

and others

But with all due respect to all of them,

one must say

that

it takes one forever

to realize that

The one rule

Ironclad

Of poetry

Is:

 

There

Are

No

Rules

One is bound to be jailed by.

 

One must learn to go

their own way---

let others who are sticklers

hem and squirm about

what “school” to put that one in.

While you dear poet

try to determine

what brought you to

pick poetry

or

the poetry

to pick

You.

 

Could the answer

to either

be

that you simply have

Something to say to the world?

 

                                               

© 2009 Garrett Murphy