Running Rampant

When words are running rampant

You just have to rein them in.

By lassoing a few of them,

At least you can begin.

 

They’ll buck and kick and race around,

Defiantly at first,

Especially the adjectives –

You know that they’re the worst.

 

But once you calm them down and let

The verbs and adverbs mix,

The nouns and pronouns may decide

To use their bag of tricks…

 

Releasing prepositions

And conjunctions by the score.

You want some interjections?

Hey! You couldn’t ask for more.

 

If all the parts of speech are caught

You don’t have an excuse.

Without a poem resulting,

You should go and let them loose.

 

So string them all together

And you’ll possibly succeed

In creating, from these random words,

Some poetry to read.