What's a Poem For?
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Copyright (c) 2005, J. Randal Matheny
WHAT'S A POEM FOR?
by J. Randal Matheny
What's a poem for? you ask.
For mirth and myth, for memory's call,
Revealing hearts, removing a mask,
For kneeling pleas and standing tall;
A play on words, a war in paint,
The cry of sinners and sword of saint.
A poem's for meaning, when less is more,
When prose falls flat, and speech turns stale,
When thunder rattles the walls and floor,
And age succumbs and hands grow frail.
A poem's for every mood and bent,
For David's dance, for Job's lament.
So what's a poem for? We say,
For every heart's full voice, full lungs
To sing, to rail, to shout, to pray,
To heal and loosen a thousand tongues.
Since verse can speak to Everyman's lot,
We ask: For what's a poem not?
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