The Expression, Yes, Just The Expression Poem by RIC BASTASA

after all is said and done
one can say
poetry has nothing to do
with it
not the words and rhyme or
whatever
matter
not the rules of what is an ideal form
not the sound
the way that once you demanded that it must be magical
at the end
it is only the expressed emotion that really matter
i feel it
and i exposed it to the world
hoping that too
once i existed just like the rest of all the components
of what we think is
the wave of humanity
what we perceive perhaps as merely the sounds of
dolphins and
elephants or as eels
and that most ordinary dog
that you dub as
barking the wrong tree.