Joe Considers His Poetry


Auden considered that poetry

And this applied to most authors

Fell into four classes

First of all – The Pure Rubbish

Secondly- The Good Ideas that Fell Short

Thirdly – The Decent Poems but sadly the poems that Lacked Importance

The final class are the poems

That are the Really Great Poems

They are a credit to your pen

The poems that cannot be bettered

I am not sure

If I can separate

My poems

Into quarters

As they are so fluid

I do not really have a style

It is hard to pigeon hole them

A lot of my poetry may appear

To lack discipline

But that is a trick of the light

As my poetry is highly disciplined

I do not really know why am sharing

These interesting

But ultimately

Vacuous thoughts

I have green eyes

But they are expressionless

This is not a confessional poem