It doesn't have to rhyme

Poetry is a unique art form. A single word can be a poem. So can the 1.8 million words of the Hindu poem, Mahābhārata. There’s no right or wrong.

A poem merely needs to express what we need to express.

Somebody read one of my poems once and said it enabled her to exhale. That pleased me, because it had blessed her. But it neither validated nor invalidated what I had written.

Once, I was thinking about how insignificant I am--just contemplating reality, not feeling sorry for myself. And God sweetly reminded me how inconceivably significant I am to him. And I couldn't help writing:

I’ve nothing

to give

to you,

only things

to return.

You

give me breath.

I

merely exhale.

I write poetry when there’s something inside me that can’t get out any other way.