"Poetry of the Mind" Written by John Fried

In poems there is meter and rhyme,

That’s what teachers say all the time,

A beat to keep, like a pounding drum,

A thesaurus work to drive one to rum

With tricks of mind and clever little twists

One weaves words into strange little mists

Some so smooth off the tongue

they tend to make the bees hum

Others in so Gilbert and Sullivan they say

nothing in high standing comedic ways

Some write to fall to others dreaming call

To drift away in dreams soft sway far and all

A loss to self, in rhyming curse

To write what is in them the worst

Of addled dreams, fever minds tossed

And leave the reader at cross roads losted

But the poetry of the mind

Defies the meter, destroys the rhyme

And teachers best lesions are learned

So self incrimination's are earned…


Written by John Fried
Posted on 02/25/13