A POEM SPEAKS NATIVE: <br />Original 10 30 2009 <br /> <br />A poem speaks native speak <br />The proper colloquial greetings <br />Writes streets of conversation hip <br />Turns on its charismatic native cool <br />Moving its foot rhythmically with <br />Shoulder turns sure to twist toward <br />The liquid lighted avenue -girls set <br />On stoop steps with brown knees <br />Tucked toward their chins holding <br />Winter wool skirts by the hem <br />To cover bottoms but knees to tease <br />The passing Metro Lines –the poem <br />Speaks the metric rhythm -passing <br />Traffic defines <br />With pretence in comparing eyes <br />The poem drags an instep behind <br />Fake knocked kneed limps -happen <br />To bend to turn hips toward consciences <br />Incline to thought –to be <br />Exposed by poems for it ought <br />Be what poems ought ideally be -the <br />Supple poem yearns the body slides <br />On down the avenue -a poem can <br />Speak a native tongue as good as <br />You please -take to whistling avenues <br />As it tools on out of hearing range <br />Dims on out of sight -speaking softly <br />And proper things to neighbors -singing <br />As loud as you please ‘bout history and <br />stoops that poems never forsake <br />to speak the native greet. <br /> <br />Lee Mack copyright 2009. ISBN # 0615318347. Do not reproduce without permission.<br /><br />Lee B. Mack<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poem-speaks-native-improvisation-10-29-2009/
