The Art of Poetry
poems are written magic
a few words per line,
effects joyful or tragic
expressed most sublime
poem’s cryptic wealth
consumes our thought,
it beguiles by stealth
where meaning is sought
it conjures up emotion
using words and sound,
it uses a witch’s potion
to make its wiles astound
with erudition most precise
it’s symbols tacitly stated,
poetry is best when concise
complexity is overrated
Ronald Kuykendall
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