I’m put upon to ponder the problem of poetry <br />& thus, I proudly or, perhaps, perfunctorily, <br />Ponderously pronounce with a preponderance, <br />Even a plethora, of p’s: <br /> <br />Poetry is pithy, prankish and perky, <br />Pertinent and impertinent, too <br />It’s prophetic, pathetic, pragmatic and proud <br /> <br />Poetry pretends, preaches, points out, <br />Points to, and down, and under <br /> <br />Poetry’s petals promise purity and peace <br />Poetry’s pristine, picky and pale <br /> <br />Poetry is practical, prudent, is pregnant, <br />Gives pause <br /> <br />Poetry’s precise, prayerful, powerful <br />Poetry’s presence is portentious and playful <br /> <br />Poetry’s a mosaic portrayal, a <br />Painted portraiture, perfect, profane <br />Prosaic, it is not, <br />Preposterous, it is <br />It is ponderous, political, porous, pontifical <br />Peripatetic and perennial, <br />Prescient, pedantic, possessive and puerile <br />Perfidious, perceptible, perplexing, perfectible <br /> <br />Poetry perseverates, preserves, perseveres <br /> <br />Sometimes perplexing, never perishable, <br />It pulses it prowls, it probes and it pries <br /> <br />Poetry is a perverse, precocious, pubescent prankster <br />Presumptuously posing, <br />Priapic and prudish <br /> <br /> <br />It prances, and preens periwinkle plumage <br />In place of deep purple prose <br />A persuasive, peculiarly pleasant peacock, <br />Poetry promulgates poems! <br /> <br />Poetry, dear poet, exists <br />Poetry, dear poet, persists <br />Poetry, dear poet, persists and preoccupies <br />Poetry can never desist<br /><br />Rev. Rebecca Guile Hudson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/at-play-in-a-garden-of-words-the-problem-with-poetry-or-harvesting-the-pea-patch/
