A Good Poem Poem by Tony Adah

A good poem breathes oxygen
As does its oxymorons
A good poem blooms
As nature does
A good poem griefs
As the world mourns
A good poem laughs
As its petals open
To salute the bees, birds, butterflies
And the moths yearning for nectar
A good poem hides
And soon it is found
In its imageries and symbols
A good poem
The reader subsumes
In its themes and timbre
And he is found
On its page time and time again.