Poetics

A snappy rhyme is bound to please

It turns the whole world cheery 

Especially after wine and cheese       

I recommend it, Dearie

But rhymes, alas, are now passé 

and meter merely clogs the path  

Seek liberation, fluidity, free verse

The poet’s maxim, reject constraint

like the hummingbird flitting about the tulips 

and always bear in mind:  Century Twenty-One

we the progeny of ✯Post✯Post✯Modernism✯

plumbing dark recesses of the Unconscious

   fingernails scraping on the blackboard 

blind lambs plunging from limestone cliffs

while Time bends in upon    ) (     itself  

So many splendid options for composing a verse

But first let’s enjoy a glass of Merlot