Poetry is very great
Many people, it does elate
Great poets many do in fact
Write poems which are quite exact
(Unfortunately this one’s not intact)
A good poem is, and does
Draw together all the fuzz
In such a verse we all realize
That poems come from between our eyes
(This shouldn’t come as a surprise)
Some poems are light and not that scary
While others make me feel quite wary
For many there seems to be a tradition
Of being severe, like religion
(Maybe we need to make a decision)
Basically, this poem was brief
The writing of it caused me some grief
I feel it is time to retire
The act of it has left me tired
(And maybe, just a bit inspired!)
Yeah, thank you for the complement! I like how as a community poets are generally very accepting. Its a strange art imo, I don’t know what standards are used to judge poetry.
You must be joking! Mine sounded like children’s poetry. Like Shel Silverstein or Roald Dahl or something. Lots of awkward moments and phrasing. I can’t take what I did seriously. Yours on the other hand was almost perfect in my opinion.
So we came into this life, I could never understand.
I delighted in the highs, you held me in quicksand
I was me and you were you
but in the darkest moments we were no longer were two
So in those darkest moments we merged as one
No longer the daughter, no longer the son
We were as one and the journey it did dance
perhaps it was never really, no it, was never chance
So I thank you for this time we knew as one
I never could have created it, never saw the sum
But through the ups and downs
I never ablated it, we were always one.