Some words are heavy, some have wings

Some make you think of many things

Some can help your mind to soar

Others dash you to the floor.

Words with syllables and letters

Can often keep your mind in fetters

“Which word fits here? Is this one right?”

It can become a mental fight.

Bound by rules and strictest diction

To work a rhyme can cause much friction

By shaking off the hard fast rule

The poet is genius or fool.

Words that the poet finds

Paint clearer pictures in our minds

Word choice makes mental pictures lush

Words are the paint, the poet the brush.

Dr. Hoult, a candidate for poet laureate of Culver City, may be contacted at HOULTight@aol.com