MountainRiver

My prose definitely sucks 
all of that punctuation 
and capital letters and 
what complete sentences and 
paragraphs mine really sucks 
but poetry 
poetry runs crystal clear 
like a high mountain 
river cold and crisp 
like freshly washed apples 
and in this river 
swim fish which reflect 
the sun turning this 
river into splashing rainbows 
you see poetry is
words and words have 
meanings and everyone that
reads thinks and feels 
something different always different 
so it’s not poetry 
or even the words 
it’s the reader reading 
and feeling what they 
do when looking into 
my clear mountain river