Wary of Vocabulary

Poems are not a way to write.

They come from thinking day and night.

In other words, philosophy

is the basis of poetry.

Poems tell us what we may do.

Through poems i may talk to you.

Poems make us seem arrogant

even though insignificant.

Poems give us license to say

ridiculous things anyway.

Imagination lets us be

unrestricted and truly free.

We are not trying to confuse

by the fancy words which we use.

Walt Abbott 4-15-2011