I detest reading blank verse
My writings I nurse, rehearse.
Perfection being my goal,
Gladly I’d barter my soul
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I just love to see you undressed
I know that I act like a pest
Just humor me some
And make my glands hum
...
What are the stars? What purpose serves their dim but twinkling light?
Those sparkling jewels in far off space invoke sublime delight.
A star group in winter skies is called by a famous name,
The Pleiades; how long ago the ancients sang their fame!
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Prissy Petulant Poet
I detest reading blank verse
My writings I nurse, rehearse.
Perfection being my goal,
Gladly I’d barter my soul
In place of writing blank verse.
But even worse is free verse:
Discipline's dead, in a hearse.
Anon attention is stilled
Int’rest is wantonly killed
Whenever one reads free verse.
I’d sooner hear donkeys bray,
My wits would dissolve away.
List’ning to either type verse,
Goads me in public to curse,
To hear good poesy betray.
This poet will shun such verse
His rhyme, his meter rehearse,
Until that glorious day
When all writers see his way
And pen only polished verse
It’s poetry at its worst
Whenever one writes blank verse.
Despite Walt Whitman's success
The Muse can’t ever one bless
For scribbling such mindless mess.