No beat
No goal
No rhyme
No soul

 

No heart
No joy
No play
No ploy

 

No voice
No sound
No sky
No ground

 

No black
No white
No bark
No bite

 

No legs
No arms
No powers
No charms

 

No fun
No games
No fire
No flames

 

No bricks
No steel
No drink
No meal

 

No word
No ink
No speech,
Just think

 

No trees
No leaves
No air
To breathe

 

No smiles
No toil
No work
No soil

 

No friends
No beer
No pause
No cheer

 

No Joker
No Ace
No substance
Just space

 

No form
No notion
No drive
No motion

 

All limbs
Disjoint
No poem
- No point

 

(Poem written in an exercise after reading "No!" by Thomas Hood.)