Putting poetry to the pasta test

The poems that stick-

are the ones that

when hurled against a wall

make not a sound,

some advise letting them float-

as a way of settling.

The poems that penetrate

and get beneath the skin by

3^rd degree composition, 
tend to scar, pink and raised, 
until another poem

goes deeper.

The poems that sing

are Free

like all the rest

seek harmony, adhesives

and sharp lines

that stick out. 

Painting by William Merritt Chase [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.