Why must poetry
always be pretty?
Well, at least for me
that’s how it must be.
Why can’t I free form?
Disregard the norm?
Just let the words swarm
around in a storm.
I must always write
my poetry right
with the meter tight
and the rhyme scheme bright.
Someday, I will change;
Be a bit less strange.
Some poems I’ll derange
and give them free range.
Until that time,
meter and rhyme.
