Hello Poetry
Submit your work and get some sparkles! Create free account
arlene-corwinPoems
A Poem For All The Publishers Who Say “No Poetry” I’ve looked it up a million times – (a little bit of overstatement never hurts) I think in meter, think in rhyme. It suits my temperament. Reverts To chimes of nursery rhymes Instinctive in us all – This call to childhood’s guiltlessness. Yet publishers of good repute Refute this claim And to their shame, Their snobbish, profiteering shame, Say No to poetry. We should attack! Abundant in attractiveness are we. Ever clever, disciplined; Deep, reflecting all reality: And yet they say, “NO POETRY, DO NOT SEND POETRY”. Refused, rejected Are we bards dejected? Never! We go on forever, Eager in our hunger. While you publishers go under, We are there, bad, corny, muted, Understated and astut-ed; Couplets, meters, forms abstract, Highbrow, lowbrow, autodidact: Rumbling on like thunder. A Poem For All You Publishers Who Say “No Poetry” 12.21.2016 A Sense Of The Ridiculous II; Our Times, Our Culture II; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Arlene Corwin
0
Dec 21, 2016
Dec 21, 2016 at 6:49 AM UTC
A Poem For All You Publishers Who Say "No Poetry"
A Poem For All The Publishers Who Say “No Poetry” I’ve looked it up a million times – (a little bit of overstatement never hurts) I think in meter, think in rhyme. It suits my temperament. Reverts To chimes of nursery rhymes Instinctive in us all – This call to childhood’s guiltlessness. Yet publishers of good repute Refute this claim And to their shame, Their snobbish, profiteering shame, Say No to poetry. We should attack! Abundant in attractiveness are we. Ever clever, disciplined; Deep, reflecting all reality: And yet they say, “NO POETRY, DO NOT SEND POETRY”. Refused, rejected Are we bards dejected? Never! We go on forever, Eager in our hunger. While you publishers go under, We are there, bad, corny, muted, Understated and astut-ed; Couplets, meters, forms abstract, Highbrow, lowbrow, autodidact: Rumbling on like thunder. A Poem For All You Publishers Who Say “No Poetry” 12.21.2016 A Sense Of The Ridiculous II; Our Times, Our Culture II; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Arlene Corwin
Written by
arlene-corwin
Dec 21, 2016
Dec 21, 2016 at 6:49 AM UTC
Request permission to use this poem