'Is Poetry Pretentious?"

 

"Is Poetry Pretentious?"

Greg Budig 2020

Is poetry pretentious?

With its oversized,

gangly words.

Some people think 

it's resplendent!

Others think it's 

for the birds. 

Sometimes it rhymes.

Sometimes not so much. 

Sometimes it doesn't 

really make sense. 

Some people find 

it so captivating. 

While others take offense.

"Oh look at these toes,

they're Longfellow's!!'

Was an ancient form of jest.

"I'm a poet and I know it!"

Was equally as  bad,

sometimes you wish 

it was given a rest. 

An expression of various 

feelings from the very 

depths of your soul. 

The words can be a 

painful struggle,until 

your thoughts become 

realized and whole. 

A poem can be like 

a nursery rhyme,

with a happy and 

merry tone.

Written in soft and 

simple lines, but 

isn't it still a poem?

This poem is not about 

much of anything. 

It's not angry or relentless. 

But it makes you think,

and makes you laugh. 

And I found a word that 

rhymes with pretentious. 

The End