Why I by C.R. Daugherty

Why I

If I could narrow my writing down

To two words with which I’d like to start

Meting out a poem, pound for pound,

It’s more like seven, bless your heart.

These words are who, what, when, where, how, why, I,

And is it no surprise as I come across

With interrogative beginning a line,

Or testimony, this language be boss?

What are the words which come to your mind

As you begin a sacred poem?

Second narrative words like you’re and you,

Sound catechistic for to quote ‘em.

Beginning a line with they’re and those

Sounds like a form of storytelling.

I hope you end your poem well and close

With wittily inked grammar and saucy spelling.

© C.R. Daugherty 4-23-2020