Is a poem a rhythmic rhyme?
A singsong tune with a catchy chime?
Is it a work of heart or head?
Is it always meant to be read?

Poems need not be rhythmic,
Don't you see?
Nor need they rhyme.
Point proven.

No work of heart could feel so dead,
But works of head, they aren't warm.
And as for if they are to be read,
We know it is not always the form.

If poems are for money,
Why write for lovers?
If they are for love,
Why write for fame?

No, poems can be none of these things.
None alone, but perhaps a mix,
Some of some, others of the rest,
And so we deduce what poems are:

Poems are clay.