Evolutionary Poem

I was walking around outside and was thinking that plant evolution didn't make sense to me. I mean is seems like plants should have evolved to not be tasty. That would be an evolutionary advantage, to not be eaten I mean. But I was thinking about it and, well plants were here first so really we evolved to like the taste of certain plants. And some plants have evolved to not be eaten, to have poisonous leaves and flowers, so there is still some plant evolution. Instead of writing a poem directly about evolution I decided to write one about the evolution of a poem, not the revising stage, but rather how poetry has evolved over the last few centuries. I mean we have gone from a very rigid meter and rhyme scheme to a predominately free verse society (not that society is that much interested in poetry anymore) . So I was thinking about where poetry is going to go. Is it going to continue in free verse, or is it going to have a some what circular pattern and go back to having a tight meter and rhyme scheme, or maybe something new entirely. I chose the title Evolutionary Poem because I liked how it reminded me of the revolutionary at the same time as being about evolution, and if you really think about it those words are really quite similar.

Evolutionary Poem

If my poem were to evolve,
what way would it go?
How would the words be grouped? Would the rhythm
fall into place? Would there be a set rhyme
scheme? Which way would it go? Would time
degrade the poem into
that terrible thing
known simply as
free verse?
Or would we have a poem that evolved
into the greatest works of Master Shake?
I don't know how a poem would evolve
and perhaps, it wouldn't be one or the
other, but a melding of the two.

Copyright 2007 William Curb