How to Write a Somewhat Satisfactory Poem

To all the people who are poets,

But don’t yet know it.

Writing a poem can be tricky,

And seems quite the herculean task.

But it’s really not that hard,

All you have to do is ask.

Question what you see, hear, taste, and feel.

Abjure the norm,

Reject what is false, what is true, what is right, what is real.

And soon, just you wait,

An amorphous idea will take root.

Though it will start as inchoate,

It will grow if your hope stays resolute.

A good poem requires patience,

And the result is not instantaneous.

You must muse over the melange of your morals.

You should be flexible and open,

Subsume the overlooked and unnoticed,

Balance being nefarious with being outspoken.

But the most important part of writing a poem

I alone can not teach,

For it comes from the heart,

And is not any part of speech.

You see, my friends,

Without passion, a poem will always be incomplete.