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Haiku  ? What  you want    ISN’T  POETRY Nor,  is  what you are  making .  Its a crossword puzzle! Restricted, confined not necessarily useless, but unwanted  by  the  rest of  us. What  I want is not  poetry . ITS A SOAPBOX , not respected Obeyed ! (Don’t  expect  us  to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t  candy  coat my sledgehammer  for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression  with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. ) It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither  is  a form  that hinders  it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight. Like rain-slick **** shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed  garbage. No real expression  had  syllable  count as its impetus ! Yor lame brevity without weight is really just laziness and incompetence . What should have been a paragraph hacked to death isn’t automatically profound. It’s like handing someone a bag of bread crumbs and saying, “Enjoy your gourmet sandwich.” Most real writers can and do enjoy words and or at least a complete thought with actual depth.. Why  do  you  Want  to mimic Basho, any way ?   Are  you a scared  feckless samurai boy  toy  trapped in  a ***** house  that serves  tea ? Are you socially stunted  and   rambling through  a whispering ********** zen garden ? Are you being forced to pretend  enjoyment in polite  torture or can you not tell poetry from sudoku? Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s at tea-party about to turn **** crybaby daddy issues art  act, much ?
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Jun 21, 2025
Jun 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM UTC
Crosswords and soap boxes slicker than fresh pooh in the rain
Haiku  ? What  you want    ISN’T  POETRY Nor,  is  what you are  making .  Its a crossword puzzle! Restricted, confined not necessarily useless, but unwanted  by  the  rest of  us. What  I want is not  poetry . ITS A SOAPBOX , not respected Obeyed ! (Don’t  expect  us  to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t  candy  coat my sledgehammer  for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression  with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. ) It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither  is  a form  that hinders  it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight. Like rain-slick **** shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed  garbage. No real expression  had  syllable  count as its impetus ! Yor lame brevity without weight is really just laziness and incompetence . What should have been a paragraph hacked to death isn’t automatically profound. It’s like handing someone a bag of bread crumbs and saying, “Enjoy your gourmet sandwich.” Most real writers can and do enjoy words and or at least a complete thought with actual depth.. Why  do  you  Want  to mimic Basho, any way ?   Are  you a scared  feckless samurai boy  toy  trapped in  a ***** house  that serves  tea ? Are you socially stunted  and   rambling through  a whispering ********** zen garden ? Are you being forced to pretend  enjoyment in polite  torture or can you not tell poetry from sudoku? Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s at tea-party about to turn **** crybaby daddy issues art  act, much ?
"honesty, even when it’s ugly, is more poetic than polished syllable gymnastics."...
OldeMrHoover
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Jun 21, 2025
Jun 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM UTC
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