a hopelessly near perfect sonnet

you've never written a perfect sonnet
nor a quatrain which made any good sense
your diction is spare your concepts too dense
would you know verse if you stepped upon it?

verse requires' a dancer's lithe light skill
and makes fools of those who want to try it
it's senseless for sure, who can deny it
he toys with vain odds who there casts his will

in the way of poignant verse...something else
might suffice ...leave poems to word fools
those who regard breath and mind as tools
to waylay the pain of man's chosen hells

what with smart phones and infinite info
no telling where the benighted might go






      jh






.....thanks to Curtis Faville for inspiration












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