The Minimum

my words,

though sparse,

are sufficient

my apologies,

if what you say in a hundred

I can do in five

redundancies,

are a nuisance

the bane of my life

what use are words

with no meaning

with no purpose

the second stanza

would be,

should be the end

but the hundred word minimum,

I must keep writing words that needn’t be

I must keep writing instead

how much longer until

I reach what is required

in order to make my work known

no offense

to other poets,

that was not my intent

but, the minimum

for our written word

effects the quality of mine