UMBRELLAS AND RAINCOATS

Between what you see in out of tune strings and half notes
Like pages you’ve read with useless words that do not rhyme
Or ballad patterns wrong, these rhythmic songs in half time–
somewhere in them lies poetic things that you wish you wrote.

You write of a field of umbrellas and raincoats.
As you stand on the soaked land of rain’s victim-riddled crime,
hearing whistle winds who refuse to meantime chime,
within, dark clouds sputtering on you no quotable quotes.

Construe excitement from wet dullness into words surreal.
And try to avoid deliberate poetic device citing.
You can also try to surmise what your sonnet implies.

Yet, you always write what you think and not what you feel,
then proceed to tell others, “This is poetry writing…”
But, between you and I, this umbrella and raincoat are dry.

@kwirb #30Days30Sonnets
September 9th 2015.