What for?
Over these past years
Maybe when I should have been writing poety
I just put some words in a box
and clicked “Submit Poem”
How would I even know?
I read some Yeats awhile back
His poem was book length
and had an exotic rhyming pattern
It was very good
At least the 2 pages I read
So – this year I’m going to try something completely different:
Entertainment
(this one excluded)
I want to write poems like Lucille Ball
or Josh Brolin rather than
Joseph Stalin or Chairman Mao
good poets, sure
but I wasn’t entertained
Is it time for fun yet?
I sure hope so
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I’m ready to hear from Lucille Ball and Josh Brolin. Joseph Stalin was no fun at all!
Have not seen Stalin or Mao in any bookstore or library poetry section here. Must be talking about in Russia and China where they are the only books that have not been burned. While the others have been spread on unmarked graves. Most world leaders suck!
I love this poem. Its what we all do after all…put words in box and click submit. After that I give up.
I also likes don’s comment, especially about world leaders.
Favorite lines:
It was very good
At least the 2 pages I read