I really like this as is but I share some thoughts:
Now go the hell away. Very good use of this line. I'd make it the title unless a specific event or place comes to mind. Like "Workshop, May 32nd, Highway-to-Hell, Nevada".
I'd find active verbs for each use of 'is' and replace each 'the'. Like "May's sky screams blue; Spring's sea blooms green". This provides a season and action, sound, something.
Could use a grammar check unless you like it as is. Grammar is less important in poetry; this isn't an essay. For a definite pause (like for rhythm) you can use an emdash instead of a comma like: "I kid you not — nature's obscene,"
To add "darkness" to it... this is that season...
Explorers with lost souls explore,
Search worlds they've never searched before,
They'll kid you not — forevermore,
Now go the hell away.
Who do I write for?
Me.
I like to read my own words,
Written by me.
I like the way they look on paper,
How they sound in my eyes.
It's not ego.
I take pride, but that aside,
It's all about what I enjoy,
A toy for the boy to play with,
I like the way the words feel,
And hope others do, too.
I'm very tactile that way,
But that's a different poem.
Written under duress of the "Ought to be doing something else," monster.
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