I don’t want to write a poem
if it won’t be any use
to a lion or a chicken
or a tiger or a goose!

I don’t want to write a poem
if it’s too afraid to sing,
if the poem has no voice –
Then it doesn’t mean a thing.

I don’t want to write a poem,
if it doesn’t want to fly,
every word should be a bird
that tells a story in the sky.

I don’t want to write a poem
if there’s no imagination
when we think outside the box
There really is no limitation.

I don’t want to write a poem
if the words are fast asleep,
I need fizzy-dizzy-disco-words
that bounce along a beat.

I don’t want to write a poem
if it doesn’t feel like me,
creative electricity,
The magic and the mystery.

Alex Wharton