Poetry Workshop
He puts the at the end of the
line, sprinkles too many
and’s around for their liking.
He likes fuzzy poems, a bit rough
around the edges. Make ‘m work
is what I say. A bright idea turned
cartwheels through his mind.
Something about Hiroshima
and war, but ended up as a poem
on the ordinariness of milk floats.
They fail to see the connection.
In the long silence he writes a haiku
about his pet snake,
how it feels warm, not slimy.
John Murphy is a retired Lecturer and musician. His poems have been published in various magazines and journals. He is the editor of The Lake, a poetry webzine.