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it's powerful and insightful, william. i can think of a few possible changes - what do you think of -
If poetry could deconstruct the atom,
unravel D.N.A., or halt aging in its tracks,
its value could be measured with a gauge
and read so clearly anyone could fathom
the full five feet of every line and verse.
But there's more to poetry than metered lines,
the by-products of our frustrated lives
or an attempt to set things right with words.
We could think of poems as frozen time,
as threads of thought connecting word-beads.
What connects them is not the verse or rhyme
but measured breath, a date, a time, an insight:
an emotion that we had before dying,
a ripple on the waters which we caught.
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