The Perfect Poem

The perfect poem has a distinctive flair,
It spurs emotions with prose, rhythm and rhyme.
It's presented with confidence and precision care,
Arranged imagery that flows in cadenced time.
Its word selection is choreographed,
It's a window into a poet's mind.
It's enhanced with acrostic and metaphoric frames,
It's a parable with hidden messages between certain lines.
It exudes feelings of love, hurt and pain,
Or makes a point of the philosophical kind.
It's historical, pastoral, political or moral,
With stanzas categorical or sublime.
It's patriotic, symbolic, chaotic or comical,
About family, pets, animals or memories of good times.
There are so many styles, lengths and variables,
That make a great poem rhetorically shine.
But the perfect poem evokes thoughts and intangibles,
Raw feelings that readers might otherwise not find.




Copyright © October 2009
Kevin Mooney

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