Overheard in Cyberspace: A Poem Is

2018-08-19

A poem is not like an airplane:

launched, then landing at a single place;

but it can land in many a brain

all at once, with healing and with grace.

Poems can fly a long, long way.

A poem is not like a freight car:

a single payload sent on request;

rather, a load uniquely on par

for each one who receives its bequest.

Poems deliver awesome weight.

A poem is not like a school room:

for all, a set, fixed curriculum.

A poem can lift us from our gloom,

to see in life an infinite sum.

Poems can teach love above hate.

A poem is not, as some may fear,

a waste of time or a crashing bore;

for every popular song we hear

is a poem set as music's core

(though some, as poems, aren't so great).

But a poem may fly us away.

It may carry our heaviest weights.

A poem may teach a new pathway

or empower what music creates.

Have you written a poem today?

Overheard in Cyberspace