Post-Modern Sonnet
by Josh LaMar


I think that good poetry should have a rhythm 
To it, something that goes on and on by itself 
Without making you, the reader, aware
Of itself.  It should also have an image:
[Insert image here that is relevant, insightful,
Thoughtful and clever, not a list of extraneous 
Adjectives].  Good poetry should also have
Some sort of message or meaning to it; nothing
Too didactic or trite or inconsequential,
But something that is worth saying: I exist ... 
In and of myself, for myself.
I am not part of some larger picture or project
That you can't see, or are not aware of.
I simply exist and that is that.  Like love.