WHAT SHOULD A POEM WEIGH?

public domain photo (see note below)

WHAT SHOULD A POEM WEIGH?

Can a poem be too fat? Is it even likely that:  if you put one on a diet

(just, perhaps, I ought to try it), it might whine – or better yet…

maybe snipe – like an ex smoker who craves a cigarette?

Can a poem

be too thin –

with its cheeks

all sunken in?

What might  help it

fatten up?

(Adding adverbs

to its cup?

Heaping adjectives

on its plate?)

Maybe give its verbs

more weight?

(Don’t say “sad”

but: “melancholy”) –

or is THAT just silly folly?

Now, you understand my plight

(seems my fancy’s taken flight,

and I just can’t help but mull

if perchance it’s possi-bul:-)

…if someday Goldilocks might

write a poem (or some night),

would it, maybe, weigh “just right”?

WRITTEN for POETIC ASIDES WED PROMPT: MEASURED POEM

  

The above image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. [PD-1923]