“On poetry" poems, as the form suggests, are directed to the fixed purpose of dealing with the theme of what poetry is all about.
“An Elf in the Rain”
by Simone D., age 5
My
life is a poem. I love my little poems, tiny words shattered in a sort of
system
in my heart, in a sort of little voice, could be to me. A poem is like
little
suns in my face when I shatter the words that appear in mind that I put
in
a sort of dangerous associated system I love.
Poems should be positive
and strong, rising and raising. When words ap-
pear in a system it could be
positive or an accident or nature sorting it to life,
if you put it that way.
— Melissa Kawecky, 3rd