Antonym

The opposite of poetry is law.

Ornamental Teapots

I want my poetry to be useless,

like an ornamental teapot.

‘The teapot should be used

for brewing tea!’

the cry goes up.

‘And words are there

for making sense!’

But this is something which

I do not always stick

to in my poems, some of which are merely

ornamental teapots.

Sound

Again I ask myself the question,

‘But what is God?

Ineffable,

I hear my long-dead teachers say.

Ineffable?

the English teacher

I used to be replies.

A word without a definition

is just a sound.