You attack my poetry— <br />It lacks meter, <br />You say, <br />And neglects <br />Rhyme, symbol and art. <br />You call my ideas <br />Insubstantial <br />And my methods <br />Childish. <br /> <br />I answer you: <br />I write in the meter <br />Of the heart, <br />Not dactyls and spondees. <br />The rhyme is the flow, <br />And the poem itself <br />Is a symbol <br />Written to be understood <br />By the divine-human heart. <br />My ideas, <br />Now insubstantial, <br />Will soon be clear, <br />And isn’t it often <br />The method of a child <br />Which says the most <br />While saying the least? <br /> <br />(Honolulu, January 2002)<br /><br />Adam Maruyama<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-writing-a-poem-to-the-critic/
