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What is a poem?

Wednesday 9 th March 2011


 
What is a poem?
How does it have to be?
What is a good poem to you?
What is not?

A poem can Rhyme,
a poem can have a rythm,
a poem can have similies,
a poem can have metaphors.
A poem can be like a story,
a poem can be like a song,
a poem can have quotation marks,
all of these belong.

A poem doesn't need to Rhyme,
a poem doesn't need a Rythm,
a poem doesn't need any similies,
a poem doesn't need any mataphors.
A poem doesn't need to be like a story,
a poem doesn't need to be like a song,
a poem doesn't need quotation marks,
all of these belong.

A poem can express your feelings,
and sometimes it may not,
A poem can explain what you are feeling and thinking,
and sometimes it may not,
But everything belongs.

A poem that rhymes,
may be funnier,
A poem that has rythm,
may be easier.

But all of those suggestions a poem can be,
they all can be a poem.

There is no poem that is not a poem,
and there is no poem that I don't imagine it to be a poem.

Everything is possible.