A Few Lines For The Phillistines Poem by Bryan Alexander

Who is to define
what is poetry
and what is not

would a poet
dare to
tell a soldier
how to fire his gun

or to show an architect
how to design
his castle

or to tell
a king how to rule
his kingdom

I think not

Here in these lines
my pen is my gun
and I am the soldier

these pages
are the the castle
I built
stone for stone
where nothing once stood

In these poems
I am the king that
rules
commanding battalions
of metaphor
and lording over
my wordy subjects

Let the poet decide
what is poetic
and let him
transcribe and relate it
as he sees fit
What is meaningless to one
may be musical to another

we are all poets
some just listen
a little better
to the voice
that shouts
these lines
from inside