Poetry

I will never ever be

derogatory

about poetry.

Whether a witty ditty

or words that make you cry,

you read and see how the world looks

through someone else's eye.

When someone writes a poem

they open up their soul.

You can see the real person

you can understand their goal.

Some are master wordsmiths

whose poems give me rapture.

Others may struggle to make their point

and these,my heart can capture.

I am just a dilettante

I scribble now and then.

When the feeling moves me,

I must take up my pen.

And though the words are simple and trite

they show I have an appetite-

for poetry.