More Felt than Understood

Some can write things so inexact

that they seem more graceful than fact;

about people as you know’em.

This is what we call a poem.

They follow only certain rules

which the poets can use as tools.

But, if the reader feels penned in,

it’s no longer a poem then.

Perhaps not everyone knows

how to tell a poem from prose.

If you have to analyze it,

the soul within you denies it.

Poems are lovingly designed

speaking more to heart than to mind.

Walt Abbott–7-19-2009