'There are some wonderful
poetic lines that flow here,' they said;
'but if it's meaning eludes you,
then mark this poem on form alone, and say:

"a lot of modern poets jumble words together
leaving out much of meaning, without
allowing the poem to be read, and understood  
by the readers' searching minds."'

how contrary to other poems--
to be read and understood without
challenge or mystery or fun, meaning
just falls open like your daily news broadcast


let us then consider the difference
between biology and romance
whose meaning lay hidden
within the myriad of applied sugar
as with the case biology in contrast with romance;
if poems where to fall open 'wearing its meaning
on its proverbial sleeve, ' at every instance, then
we'd all best summarily dismiss, on the basis of
'word jumbling' and 'lack of meaning,' denigrating
of 'modern poems' as inadequate to explain or resolve
the issue of not having understood a piece of verse;

there are distinct moments when verse necessitates
more than a standard run of the mill 'fair go' for
it's splendour and depth to unfurl and take wing.