How To: Poetry

By Gerald Fitz - Published 2020-01-04

How do you write a poem?

Without drinking a jeroboam.

A biochemist must know about lysozyme.

And a poet must know about rhyme.

Interior and slant rhymes are for nerds.

And also technically for the kurds.

There is only one poetic device.

And one thing to clean teeth with: dentifrice!

My words hate to be personified.

So do the birds, trees and potassium bromide.

To make sense is not important.

End rhyming with words like “consultant”.

I don’t care about iambic pentameter.

Something Something Butter.

You must follow and AB rhyme scheme.

Even when it does not make sense, dream-

of using enjambment, but never do.

Or else your nightmares will come true

Similes are like C4

They should be a blown-up metaphor

Or at least be like an orange

Do me a favor, lookup “What rhymes with orange”

So do not care about syllabic count and proper flow

There is only one thing you need to know

Keep each line rhyming, and do so with care

Or else you will become a stair

Lyrics and meaning are stupid poetic elements

Make as much sense as a few elephants

Words should be picked to rhyme

The context and meaning are not important denime

And that was how to write poetry