Wednesday, May 25, 2016

the less i write the more i perish


a pack today i wile away

          within a constant rhyme

when i’m not writing poetry

          them i’m just doing time

the money made from books i’ve sold

          will never pay the rent

but there is nothing else i do

          wherein i am content

 

i’m not a boy who plays with toys

          no motorboat or wheels

just a blog i have called “with words

          i wander far afield”

i like to kiss and reminisce

          but mostly i just look

i’d rather write two hundred poems

          and fill another book

 

a writer should write what he knows

          but i’m not all that bright

so i “stream of consciousness”

          when i sit down to write

the inner workings of my brain

          i then put on display

i penned my first way back in school

          and here i am today

 

i call myself euterpe’s child

          from late classical times

from her womb until my tomb

          i will wrestle with a rhyme

i deluge words into a verse

          and feel creative joy

and all the other things i do

          well i just don’t enjoy

 

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