Random Acts of Poetry

The Meaning is in the Verse

I cannot tell you that my heart is bro-ken
You must seek the pain
_____________
betweenthelines

hidden in bursts of metaphor
camouflaged in cadence
(many times misspelled)

have you the depth?
must I spell it out?
fsgrdynstintiwilder?

Peasant!
Insisting on a rhyme
measuring meter
tapping in time

The cHaOs is the meaning!

Poetry must be X-perienced
not understood
emotions underlined
Pain in red
and soothing sounds
painted blue

Read it and weep
or don’t

Who cares?

I sm not getting mu keyBored fixed


23 lines

Written for Promptmaster!
Week 2
Prize Prompt:
The thing that is most likely to cause your poem to be mistaken for modern art.