I Do Not Know How To Write Poetry

You could call this a metaphor,

Or as like a metaphor as a simile.

The whooshing of onomatopoeic phrasing,

Floating, doting on assonance.

Is there time for internal rhyme?

Or should that be rhetorical question?

With five syllables

Then seven so that it shows,

I know the haiku.

An acrostic

Begins

Claiming

Demonstrable

Expertise.

I won't repeat,

I don't repeat,

Repetition is a lazy technique.

So I will write in free verse,

Unleashing the images in my mind.

The shadows of convention

Want to draw my thoughts into

Tight little tropes.

I do not know how to write poetry.