[Poetry] WHAT POETRY WANTS

Listen to your imagination
Listen and understand what it says .
Pay attention to the words it preaches
Flow with the tide of the river without banks.
Don't swim, flow; don't talk, listen.

Poetry speaks in images
And words decipherable to even the clueless
Just listen. 

Poetry creates words and graphics  

And not boring figures of speech. 

Poetry is an expression of the deep within
Not a web of confusing grammatical technicalities.

A poet carries the heavy burden of
Messages waiting to be understood.
The poet is not an author of confusion
But a bearer of fantastical verity. 

A poet begs to be heard
Not for professional analysis of
his mood and background .

Poetry teaches the obvious.
Just listen, read and search within.
For in the head of every thinker
A poet begs to be heard.

©Larry