When I tell people I write poetry,
they laugh and say it is silly,
they think it is all writing about ‘love’,
when it is about rhyming, rhythm, metaphors and stuff,
Haikus are short and simple with a rhythm to them,
metaphors describe objects that do what they can’t,
rhymes are words that are chime with sound,
poems with a rhythm have a beat,
acrostic poems describe a word running through,
shape poems are fun and shaped like what you describe,
poems aren’t silly,
even though some are about ‘love’,
I love writing poetry,
I don’t care if you think it’s silly,
I write poetry.