Improving my Poetry with Help from the Temple Builder

 

Been told don't know what poetry is what it isn't

By the great Temple Builder and Preacher

Guess that's what I get for living upside-

Down with a pretty bad teacher

 

The following excerpt he tells me

Is poetry inspired from above

I'm trying my hardest to understand it

This poem, which I know I should love

 

Excerpt from poem “Aspiring Poets Wanted'

(by the Temple Builder 17/1/19)

 

'We as the Temple of Indomitable Poetry will become a home

for all those seeking more than the subtle trolls and pretention of Write Out Loud's lower echelons, and not simply stagnate.

 

If you (the moderators) choose to delete this post (read poem) because you say it does not adhere to your (read poetry) rules then be ready for your own share of 'pain-in-the-ass' '

 

I do know that poetry's got rhythm

But not necessarily rhyme

For the life of me can't see any rhythm

No rhythm in any of these lines

 

Perhaps the Temple Builder he forgot to

Do repairs, adding rhythm where required

Or perhaps used an ignorant assistant

With no poetry knowledge that he had hired

 

Then again I could be completely off track here

Not tuned into Temple's high plane

After all I'm just a pleb with no knowledge

Refusing to be flushed down the drain

 

Don Matthews January 2019