I Found the Source of Poetry

I Found the Source of Poetry

I wiped my ass one day and called it poetry
And stuck it to the glass, to hang there rev'rently.

And though 'twas just a moment's work
And though its stink was evident,
My friends said with a putrid smirk
They knew at once 'twas heaven scent.

I deeply drank their praise; they sang my accolades,
Then threw me fine banquets and picturesque parades.

And as the bright days tumbled by
I wrote my verse for all to see
It brought real tears to every eye;
We shamed all who would disagree.

And when the fetid odor, breached our common sense
We claimed we had been attacked and took grave offense.

How dare you judge our special work
Or insist our pride is swollen?
You'd know if you weren't such a jerk,
Poetry is from the colon.


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Motivation and Focus

First things first.  This is structured as a thesis and proof type of thing.  The two line, hexameter stanzas are a statement followed by a more detailed demonstration of the ramifications of the statement in the four line tetrameter stanzas.  It is not entirely scientific, of course, just stealing the form to allow me to use two lines of hexameter and four line of tetrameter with an AABCBC rhyme scheme.

When working in this form the third and fifth stanzas are tough.  There is a need to slow the poem down from the speed of the four tetrameter lines and establish the hexameter pacing in the first two lines of each stanza.  A poem with shifting verse can be confusing to read and line 13 takes such special care in reading that I added punctuation to them just to establish pacing and not because there needs to be punctuation from a sentence structure point of view.

As far as motivation, well, I get in discussions with people who insist they are superior to other people because their poetry "comes from the heart."  This is my answer to such a moronic claim.  Oh, and the use of the word "scent" in line six is intentional.