What makes a good poem?
In your honest opinion
Is it the length
The content or the form
Does language and style matter much?
How about the words and how they flow
Would you rather free verse
Shakespearean sonnets or
Humor with puns and limericks
Haikus, Tanka, and micro poetry
Seem to be taking over these days
Does it matter who wrote the poem
Perhaps good poems are only from a certain stock
(Bukowski’, Poe, and such)
Would you mind if you didn’t get it
Many of the best poems often seeming elusive
Almost out of the mind’s grasp
With hidden meanings and complex words (language)
Do you care for a particular topic
Or does any subject at all do
Does nature have more to offer
Than poems on love and life
Tell me if you can
How deeply are you moved when you read said poem
Does it affect you at all
Leaving a message so impactful
You are dumbfounded
Wishing you could write such
Wondering how they wrote such
The poem becoming a treasured part of you
What makes a good poem?
In your humble opinion
And do tell me
Have you ever read one?
* Have a lovely weekend dear friends. Stay safe and be good to others, and yourself*
Boomie Bol 