The child asks
Daddy, what is a tree?
Outside he points and says
That__ is a tree.
Casting glance from elm to conifer
what's that
Why that's a tree as well dear child
but they don't seem too much alike
so please, Daddy,
What is a tree?
now that's a lot like poetry
for poems can take most any form
but meter metaphor and rhyme
with many sly techniques sublime
define a poem as
well...poetry
Now that's not very illuminating so please I plead
what is poetry?
an instance in Time?
a moment in Space?
the vision snared with scratch of pen?
might just as well ask
what is?...a tree
