Five Not Fun
No comfort in poetry
I vowed 40 submissions
This is the fifth
I am over the poetry.
I prepared. Studied classics.
Dissected pentameter
connected synecdoche
similes to metaphors
Noted caesura in the climax
I even located personified ashes
See
Poetry makes no sense
I teach science, not English,
Don't have three names
like William H. Shakespeare
I'm more like an anaponempeia
fucking acronym.
Oops.
Am I allowed that language?
Figured so
If rap can be poetry
Then I can use foul words
homophonic synonyms of
antonymic opposites
syntactic grammar
logically deducing
feets, I believe you call them
Does that even mean anything?
I'm trying.
I don't understand poetry
Except for one poem
The one about the boot soles:
"Failing to Fetch me at first; keep encouraged
Missing me one place, search another;
I stop somewhere, waiting for you."
Oops.
Am I allowed to do that?
Figured if insta-stories reposts
anonymous quotes
I can cite Mr. Whitman
Besides, laws I know belong to Newton
He only had three
Not the 1, 573 rules of poetry
Who invented this stuff anyway?
Lyrical Dramatic Narrative
rhymed blank
At point words cut Epic
Cycle. Or is it Cyclopes
Taunting
Sea lurch, discus hurled boulders
The belched bile of pit swirling hell
Charbydis' churned balance
into no name
See what I just did there?
Neither do I.
But I studied it all
to write one poem
each for 40 days
to tell what happened
after a Friday in March
First words spoke
You are leaving
Pledged syntactical
connotated alliteration
soliloquied syllogism
Hyperbole of fuck it
There is no comfort
None
Blippity Blop, Poopy-Pants
That's my stab at Shakespeare
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Reluctant Writer. Teacher.
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This was quite interesting. Not sure about comfort... lol. But, I certainly get where it's coming from. Good job.