Beauty in a Verse

What truly is a poem?

A question I cannot truly face.

What is it to express in a short

Amount of words, a few short

Stanzas that emit my intention?

What truly is the word

To describe thee who knows how

To combine phrases in an intended way

That summons emotion, evokes thought,

Insights rhythm and a beat of the heart.

What truly is a poem?

What does it mean to be poetic?

Is it that I rhyme the words that flatter

To prescribe a pulse that will patter

To your heart’s deepest desire?

No, I do not believe that is all that a poem is.

For I believe that poetry is the true ability to

express a thought in a short time frame;

A limited stanza that allows for not only

A convoluted sense of space,

But for a restricted margin

Of thought.

A poem is to find the elusive words that

Express, emit, portray

The most complex thoughts

Into an “easy to read”

Format.

A poem is for those

Of the greatest intelligence

Who don’t require a prose

To translate thy deepest ideas.

And to us, poems are the

Lifeblood that transmit

Beauty in a verse.

Intimacy in a stanza.

Intricacy in a rhythm.

Painting created by MME