my candle of Jesus

Why do none of your poems rhyme?
(So do…I whisper…)

Is it because you lack the artifice
of a real poet, of a professional?

Are you troubled by the rythming scale,
trouble counting the syallabic content?

Trouble with Imabic, Quatrain, Sestina
Triolet, Villanelle, ode, couplets!?

NO! I answer.

the words,
gentle fire,
speak for
themselves

and I am more of a poet
than all those forms
my candle of Jesus
burns brighter…