PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

[inspired by Morningglory's poem, "Offrhyme"]

"What metaphor describes him so that none will scoff?

In a deck of cards he would qualify to be the Knave of Off?"

---Depley Dewer, Turbulences Schlepped By A Schlemieling Schnook, Act IV, Scene 11

He had taken in mind the comforting notion

that the poems that best express emotion

must seem to be improvised, first-drafted,

unartistic, and undercrafted;

they must always sound unrefined,

end-stopped, unenjambed, misaligned;

and (most promininently) unplanned

in a tangle of lines that cannot be scanned.

He feels that constellated variety

is too extensive for his poetry---

which, like his repetitious personality,

is wholly devoted to the "Woe is me."

This pattern uncannily replicates

his unexistent love-life and unsuccessful dates:

all of them inchoate, uninformed, and chaotic

(the effects are like his dry dreams, all of them unerotic);

and so he returns to his home alone,

the night like a shriveled cob, or a fragment of stone;

not flames of romance, but dying cincers unfanned:

and he, underwhelming, is once again unmanned.

Starward