To Poem or Not to Poem

Does poetry exist apart from linguistics

a simple word game of the imagination

a justaposition of syllables

a ganglia connection

a cerebral echo rhyme

a meter measurement that only exist in time

a picture without the object

a feeling outside the heart

a thought bound up in words

a feeble thrust to be.

Is man only words and nothing more

Or has the Poet Laureate outside of time

made man His greatest rhyme.

mtc 1996