April is National Poetry Month · 8 April 2023
April is National Poetry Month so
I thought that I ought to give it a go.
I know that poems need no rhythm nor rhyme
But it is how I write poems all of the time
And poems are poignant and oft have a point
But mine are just silly and often disjoint.
Still please don’t dismiss me ‘cause I have naught to say
Don’t just read a stanza and be on your way
For my poetry might be just as good as another
At least if you are my sister or brother.
It is said there’s a friend that sticks closer than a brother
I think he’s the one who reads this word and another
The one who reads when the words mean not a thing
The same one who likes to give out quite a zing.
If you’ve read this far you’ve endured quite a lot
For like a bad story this poem has no plot
It is just full of rhymes in a particular scheme
I am not sure it has even one theme.
So as I have said all my rhymes have little substance
(And who has a rhyme for a word such as substance?)
Which just means that nobody pays them much mind
Nobody will have words either mean ones or kind.
So now you’ve read rhymes without any meat
Now you’ve read a poem written out on a sheet
Now you’ve read something written by me
Now you know I am striving to reach mediocrity.
April is National Poetry Month so
I hope you do not regret that I gave it a go.
© 2023 Michael T. Miyoshi
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