Anybody Can Be A Poet

Anyone can be a poet.It's just words carelessly tossedOn to a page to make moods seem monumental,To carve metaphor out of the mundane.There is nothing artful to it.Rhyme and reason mean littleWhen anyone can throw a verse together.Hey; poetry doesn't even have to rhyme!You can sprinkle alliteration into every line,Use dissonance to define your coupletsAnd make mockery of punctuation, orGuess where you think words should naturally stop.Talking about why a poem is a poemTakes far long...