Paul Archer's Flatpack Poem 🧩 — A Creative Assembly of Words

If this poem came from IKEA <br />It would be a flatpack poem <br />You'd have to assemble it <br />In your own time <br />From its various parts <br />Connecting the metre and the rhyme <br />Aligning the alliteration <br />And offering up heartfelt emotion <br />And deep thought, bolting them <br />With an Allen key that isn't yet lost, <br />But will be. <br />There will be diagrams in the pack <br />But you won't be able to figure them out <br />And you'll see how it goes <br />By yourself <br />And, folks, that's called free verse. <br />If this poem came from IKEA <br />It would have an obscure <br />And even unpronounceable title <br />'Schlund' or 'Darry' perhaps <br />Or 'Eldred', <br />And everyone would have a poem like it <br />Somewhere around the place, <br />But pretend they didn't.<br /><br />Paul Archer<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flatpack-poem/