Poetry is as Poetry Does

Michael A. McGuire

I've written lots of poems. 
If I think really hard, I can
remember writing my first poem.

My teacher said that nonsense 
won't take you anywhere.
Must be hard being a teacher. 

Sometimes I wrote poems 
just to hear my own voice. 

Sometimes I'd even write  
poems in my sleep. 

Now I've written happy poems
and sad poems. 

Poems about nature and 
poems about technology. 

There's Love poems and 
lonely poems.

Poems about greed and 
goodness.  

Long poems and short poems;
spiritual poems about good 
and poems about evil.

Poems that bring a tear to
your eye and poems that make
you laugh out loud. 

Poems that make you think and 
poems that will make you want
to drink. 

Poems that...that...that...

That's about it...

...and all I have to say 
about that.   

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  • sorenbarrett

    Lovely. I too wrote a poem in English class in the seventh grade for an assignment. My interest in poetry when I was failed by the teacher who said that I must have stollen it from a book and wanted me to prove I hadn't. Guilty until proven innocent just like the rest of the world.

    • Michael A. McGuire

      Thanks - thought I'd play around with a little Forrest Gump themed verse to shake it up.

      • sorenbarrett

        You are very welcome Michael

      • Cheeky Missy

        While I've a tendancy to be sillier thanks to more or less no sleep since Monday night, I still shall insist you're hilarious herein. Thank you for sharing.

        • Michael A. McGuire

          Would you like a chocolate? I ate one. ~ Sorry - couldn't resist.

          • Cheeky Missy

            Yes, I'd love a chocolate. I've been dabbling in this genre since grade school only my teacher/s didn't quash my efforts. Sorry yours did.

          • Tristan Robert Lange

            Michael, this is clever, warm, and wonderfully self-aware. What begins with a teacher’s dismissal becomes a lifetime of creative possibility...then the Forrest Gump turn brings it home perfectly. Excellent work, my friend! ✍️📚😂🙏



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