Are poems all about riddling rhymes and
suffocating structures that weave around
The minds of those that would simply want
to know the meaning of your plain platitude?
If the form shapes its meaning then

Does this poem then have no meaning?
For it is neither lyrical nor romantic,
not an ode neither a paean.
If poetry is just a glorified way of speaking words

What then is the point of fabricating beauty,
whose threads of silk have no meaning
In holding the luscious fabric of words together

Unless they be first understood?
Wouldn't it be easier if I just told you what I meant?

That poetry is something I do not understand.