My Garden Gateway Pot

A sestina form poem

By the garden gateway
stood a floral pot;
its shape and hue, Chinese.
I asked about its price; - humor -
It’s made of simple plywood!

A pot like that of plywood?
I bought it for my gateway.
Now it’s great garden humor
to brag about my pot; - price !!
“It’s vintage Ming Chinese.”

Behold my pot Chinese!
It’s only painted plywood.
Guests guessing at its price
are flummoxed by my gateway pot.
Great fun, my garden humor.

My mother hates my humor,
she says it’s too Chinese,
and thinks I’m smoking pot.
I’m going to make a plywood gateway
at just the perfect price.

I wonder at what price
in friendship is my humor.
Yet still they pass my garden gateway
accepting of my Chinese – plywood -
garden pot.

And should I buy an honest pot
and pay a fancy price,
I’ll keep my plywood
garden humor, - Chinese,
standing in the gateway.

My “high price” plywood pot is just my style of humor.
It’s fun when new friends are impressed by Chinese
art that decorates my fancy garden gateway.