The Perfect Poem
The perfect poem has a distinctive flair,
It spurs emotions with prose, rhythm and rhyme.
It's presented with confidence and precision care,
Arranged imagery flowing in cadenced time.
Its word selection is choreographed,
It's a window into its poet's mind.
It's enhanced with acrostic and metaphoric frames,
It's a parable with hidden messages between certain lines.
It exudes lost feelings of love, romance and pain,
Or makes a point of the philosophical kind.
It's historical, pastoral, political or moral,
With stanzas rhetorical or sublime.
It's patriotic, symbolic, chaotic or comical,
About family, pets, animals or memories and good times.
There are so many styles, lengths and variables,
That make a great poem shine.
But the perfect poem evokes thoughts and intangibles,
Raw feelings its readers might not otherwise find.
It spurs emotions with prose, rhythm and rhyme.
It's presented with confidence and precision care,
Arranged imagery flowing in cadenced time.
Its word selection is choreographed,
It's a window into its poet's mind.
It's enhanced with acrostic and metaphoric frames,
It's a parable with hidden messages between certain lines.
It exudes lost feelings of love, romance and pain,
Or makes a point of the philosophical kind.
It's historical, pastoral, political or moral,
With stanzas rhetorical or sublime.
It's patriotic, symbolic, chaotic or comical,
About family, pets, animals or memories and good times.
There are so many styles, lengths and variables,
That make a great poem shine.
But the perfect poem evokes thoughts and intangibles,
Raw feelings its readers might not otherwise find.
Copyright © October 2009
Kevin Mooney
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