Delicious ambiguity is mine.
So the aspiring poet thought to muse
and muse responded, quick and by design,
that neither wit nor wisdom will excuse
attempts at bright dishonesty. Look here:
select your phrases carefully; compose
them of the words that render vision clear.
Make poetry as accurate as prose –
as accurate but better at its part,
for you equip your poem with rhyme and feet:
the first to let it sing within the heart;
the last invites the head to hold the beat.
If rendered well a poem’s a perfect note
of nothing, with no market but a quote.