To Wax Poetic Poem by Jorge Garcia

To wax poetic, for me
would be so much as
to commit a grand crime
in front of a jury of
sporadic, spontaneous feelings

To wax poetic
would bring another dimension
and within that window
of time and space
I would most likely speak
of a girl I once knew
or one I once loved
and all the same I would speak loudly
in praise of her fantastic locks
her ocean-depth eyes
and the milk of her skin
which when touched
would induce the sound
of sirens in the ears
of those who did so

To wax poetic
would destroy the point
or purpose of poetry
because such a thing
is not based in verbosity
or the use of strain and rhythm
and the use of romantic language
and words both diaphanous
and ostentatious
the last of which
I had to use a thesaurus
to help me find

No
to wax poetic
is not to do those things
for it would be a shame
if to my poetry
no one could relate
because of the heavy words
and the extreme vocabulary
and the artistic way
in which I describe the green of leaves
or the pink of a hibiscus
riding on the wind like the mythical Pegasus

To wax poetic
would not make me a poet
it would make me a fool
and a scientist in a world
of words
and that, of all things
is the last of which
I want to do.