If This Rhymed It Would Be Good Poetry Addicts Poem by Terence George Craddock

imagine there are still masses
of people, even self confessed poets,
who believe apparently that poetry
must rhyme insisting lamenting,

that an absence of rhythmic rhyming
puts a poem on a lacklustre lower level,
than it might rhyme otherwise deserve
such critics might begin their analysis;

of an exceptional poem with infused declaration
total assassination of exquisite metaphors similes
ignoring brilliant insights in love of rhymes stating
'If only this rhymed, then it would be good poetry! '


Copyright © Terence George Craddock