poetry competition

 Oh M G Mikey G

If I could write poetry

yesterday I opened and read an email instructing me

how to compose poetry

kill me now it should have said

Like I was like do you remember poetry like?

Oh yes sort of I mean wasn't that

something they used to do at Christmas?

No you're thinking of funerals

Ah yes i remember. Well

Scientists have discovered how you do it

Well you see its this weird thing

you imagine a feeling thats beyond words

and then somehow say it in words

Then you think of someone you love

Living or passed on

and you write down all the things about them

that cause them to be endearing

But this must include their wonky smile

Because their wonky smile shows how unique

how quirky and truly deserving of a poem they are

Then you go for a walk (easy now a days)

either in your head of for real

And you mix up the walk and the person

And Bob's your Uncle

And Fanny's your unremembered gate.

Hey pesto you are a poet and you didn't know it.

Are you telling me this is all that great poets have ever done?

More or less yes.

It's true they used to call it assemblage thinking

Then they called it knitting club

and merged it with book club and 

Everyone began to be poetic.

Then when they had paid their entry fee to the great 

Poetry Competition 

They can return to their jobs

Convinced that the system 

and its repeatably refreshed hierachies

is something

We need to sustain in order to support the arts

In a time of economic turmoil.

Yo! its Geoffrey C!