14 September 2010

I should be sleeping. . .

. . . instead, I will be writing for a bit.

I need some poetry.
               And no, not the epic
                                with its brash hero and wicked monsters.
               Not the love poem
                                with is sucra-loquacious
                                                              rhapsody over the splenda-or of love
                                   (or the agony of the lack there-of).
               No corrsetted sonnet.
               No elegy rife with tears.
             
Nope.
I need poetry.
But some of the less obvious kind.
Don't bother with the rhythm.
Pay no attention to the rhyme.

A simple subject --
predicated on understanding well
the story held in that old tea cup
or of your footstep as it fell.