The Poem That Is Not Good Enough

THE POEM THAT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH The poem that is not good enough Awkwardly fumbles from line to line Does not hear its own music Has none. Its words are larger than its feelings Its Ideas overwhelm its words It proclaims a Beauty it cannot reveal. The poem that is not good enough Pretends to be a poem It has birds and flowers and trees and winds which are names alone. The Poem which is not good enough does not touch the Heart has little Soul puts everyone to sleep before they finish beginning it. A Poem that is not good enough Just does not Live And who am I? And what are you? And why are we? Writers and readers of Poems Looking for our own lost Eternity.