A poem should be - <br /> <br />stop right there, chum. You’ve hit <br />the target in four words. <br /> <br />see it there? Like the <br />Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis, <br />like a simile, <br />flashing through the mind, <br />reshaping the heavens, <br /> <br />soaring merrily above <br />should-be-s and shouldn’t-be-s <br /> <br />and - not even like I’ve said. <br />like nothing else <br />except itself <br /> <br />poetica my ars <br /> <br />a poet should be <br />a poem should be.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0287-ars-poetica/
