What is Poetry?
They say poems must be written of the following things,
Love, death, war, nature, hate, fear, and feelings.
But what of poems with no feelings? What of this poem?
“My mind is numb to all emotion,
I was just born that way,
To spear me of the pain,
All hurt, all the terror, all the joyous moments.”
You may say it’s the feeling of the audience,
But what if there was a poem with no emotion,
Both for you and me, and the world and beyond?
“A rock skids down a cliff,
But stays intact because it’s quite stiff.
Water rains down and turns it into sediment
And a river bed becomes its new settlement.”
Is that not a poem?
If it is, what words need to be spoken?
What if there were no rhyme,
Not even a single time?
But what of free verse?
Is a book not a giant poem?
This writing here is an omen.
It means my time here is useless.
It means my poems are all lifeless.
If a poem needs a story, a book would fill that need
If a poem needs to be short, a slogan would fill it indeed
If a poem needs to be interpreted, philosophy would surely succeed
If a poem needs time, a plant would mislead
If a poem needs a purpose, a shoe would fill it with speed
If a poem is all this, then what am I suppose to do?
If a poem is none of this, then what have I done?
If a poem is some and sometimes none, then I leave you in sorrow
For my life’s work are useless words.
This is my longest and one of my favorite poems that I’ve wrote. It’s also one of the last poems that I wrote. I have some beginning lines of a few others so I’ll finish those so I can keep posting daily poems.
I also added a title for this one, so I’ll do that for all future poems I post as well.
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