Freeing the Verse

[free-verse poetry]

I can make up my own poetry

With rules of syllables equal to pie

and only 42 words

in sets of prime numbers

because it amuses me

and paint a whole painting in 15 minutes

because I had extra paint to spare

photograph a moment

I didn't know would happen

because I got one of my notions

to point my camera in a specific direction

like creativity is an instinct

same as survival

but writing a poem of verses

that don't rhyme at all

but tells a story

from beginning to end

in such a way as to compel a reader

to keep on reading

to get to the punch-line...

er, wait, do free-verse poems have to have a punch line?

Fuck it, I do what I want

and free verse isn't free if I loose brownie points:

it's really hard for me not to re-read this

before I post it, and make it rhyme...

-M.E.