Hapless poetry 10

Poetry is
an expression of the tongue.
and soul.

a vividly unconstrained
river of ideas weaned by
a lingual aesthetic

a contiguous strand of
thought of beauty of sorrow
of insight of life of death that
is uninhibited by conventions
a comma is nothing but a premeditated breath
a lapse in a moment to accentuate ideas before lines are overgrown
and run off the pa...

Poetry and essay are not selfsame
Poetry cannot be

forwarded by a single declarative statement
that lacks association,
the color the touch the smell the sound, the intuition
of a dialogue that is composed for a different purpose
than to be heard, to be understood

when the conventions are stripped
bare, what remains?

the Poem that this ceases to be;
Only.
an essay with horrid structure.
poor conventions.