Would you tolerate it if what I wrote were more prose than poetry?
If what I had on my heart were not flow'ry speech?
Would you allow me to post it, and not take it down,
'twere it not rhyming, free-flowing, nor haiku in the least?

Hello Poetry, you see, has awakened in me a desire to write
what is on my heart.
And it is not always poetic in nature nor thought;
sometimes it just needs to get out of my head and shared
for others to see, whether they agree or disagree, like or dislike,
but I do not belong to another community, just this one.

Would you tolerate it? Short writings of one kind or another?