Fiction or Non-Fiction Poetry

Fiction

Diction

The hubby says Poetry has no clarity

It is really a rarity

Now give me a good ol rhyme

That will give you laughs sometime

Here is what he means as it appears you can

move all over the place man

It took me forever

To discover

What the difference was between fiction and non-fiction

Am I slow, is it really that difficult for some or was there an interdiction?

Okay, maybe none of the above

Just give me some love

And I will rise above

Fiction is false, not a true story

Non-fiction is truth, and I’m sorry

I’m not better at fiction for some reason it seems

I am a recovering person and was told that means

Truth is important to stay on the path of recovery

My culture says truth is a grandfather for discovery

Is there fiction in poetry I ask

I’m here to discover more as a task

Google says there is fiction in poetry, in terms of “imagination and invention”

So it’s easy to let it be and try to make it me coming to convention

Write more and try to make it fiction or not

Maybe it means just reading more to watch the plot

And see for myself where the poetry falls in the fiction slot.

I write a Poem a Day in February, and sometimes two, three or four

And sometimes more

All in rhyme, all nonfiction, except the occasional nonsense ones

And then there is some that make little sense to the reader, once

Or twice it is just for fun, like using the language of the culture

The story about the vulture,

again I’m sorry

That is really a Sid Simon story

Yes, I remember now, it is and so much fun

Feeding the vulture and having him bopping on the top of my head

Knowing that I have stopped feeding that vulture, then reached up and hollered “pluck you vulture” I said!

There are many stories in the culture, and many can only be told with snow on the ground

They aren’t poetry, although they can be told in a similar form to make them astound

Like John Skunk fought his sisters

And so did his misters

My uncles were called John Skunk

When fighting my aunties and they never wanted to hear that bunk

So they learned to not fight girls and that translated to not fighting woman

The girls learned that boys fighting girls were skunks and as women, skunks could be a man

They want no part of that so John Skunk was used in my house growing up to stop violence against women

And my sons heard it a time or two and it really did the job it was meant to and helped then to be real men.

So, who likes that one.

Almost no one, and then again many do that had this in their home growing up. How many - one or two and someone!

Hey, is this fiction and non-fiction poetry.

Is that a thing? I think I see, how that can be.