I Don't Write Poems.

I don’t write poems.

To relay one’s thoughts

into an arrangement

of pompous words and

literary contrivances is awful.

To use calculated words

and chaotic stanzas

just to appear

aristocratic, artful, crafty is nugatory

While songs evoke emotion

with rhythm, tone, and lyrical melodies

And while novels are imaginative

with their storylines and prophecies

A poem, however,

is a sea of unfinished thoughts,

Gimmicky words jumbled together,

A way to showcase vernacular expertise

but offer no real essence.

Poems defy the rules of grammar,

Who decided they,

to be above such decrees?

Poems lack plot, message, fabric.

Are they to be up to interpretation?

or is it that they have no

universal elucidation?

This is exactly why I don’t write poems.