No One, Is Buying Poetry Poem by Danny Draper
No One, Is Buying Poetry
No one, is buying poetry.
You can barely give it away,
They might read it online, free,
But no one wants to buy it.
They'd rather have a mental illness or
A criminal conviction, or
Be long term unemployed, or
Live in a dodgy house
In an even dodgier suburb, or
Have failed relationships
And broken families, or
Looming hastened mortality,
But just not that.
It is failed wisdom
In the anthropocene,
It generates from self
And must be imbibed,
Inwardly digested and
Appreciated in time,
Upon absorption and
Reflection in quiet solitude.
Worse, these are words
Not derived from self!
No evidence of achievement
As success outwardly displayed,
It falls silent and is lost to
Lairs, Spivs and strutting Ponces
In the roar and glare, fleeting but primal,
Affectation rooted ostentation.
It's no one's fault, as most things
Are no one's fault,
Fashion tears and grinds its pestle
Grates its trends as roadside scrapings
Mends the way for fecund insurgents,
Churns in wake a peeling youth
Whom quickly learn
And yearn for proof, but
Alas a troubled legacy,
Maturing wrinkled poverty,
Remiss at bliss unaware of this,
No care for creeping reality
Or an absurd actuality:
Titular is this noble passing,
Pallor grows with celerity, and
It ends as it started certainly, that
No one, is buying poetry.
You are so right and what a shame. A clear and complete analysis of the state of poetry in this modern world.A wortwhile write 10
yes, i agree with you, no one buying poetry despite all the things you mention... excellent poem..
So very true though my booklets are in the library and in the archive and perhaps someone in 100 years time might dig them up, all poetry books in my library go out once a year. It would be easier to sell anthrax.
No on can ever buy my poetry. It is my heart speaking and it is not for sale. Some day someone might buy a book with my poem in it and pay a small fee to read them I hope they do and enjoy my words.
a true chaos...! yes, you are right...the interest in poetry is not diminished, this can be seen through a great number of membership on thousands of poetry sites and public pages...! no doubt, this is an online world time...but even then, buying or no buying, the importance of published content is unrivalled...when one goes to participate in any literary occasion, event or a festival, he is asked generally how many published books he has got on his credit...! so, in case of the absence of book-readers, the publication of book is just for one satisfaction of the poet...that yes...he is the author and owner of the book....this is enough aesthetic profit for his life-time! ! !
You could be surprised one day. Remember just how great you feel after writing it. Thank you
living a poem badly is no incentive to open a book of them. Living one well you probably don't want to be confronted by a book of 'em. So where's the market?
The truths you speak are very sad ones known as entertainment on the flat screen. Great poem. I enjoyed.
Not everyone likes poetry Only those with different highly perceptions of what beauty and joy really are And so we are lucky that though we can't equal their number we are differently made. GO POETS.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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No-one will buy my Ebook then when I eventually get it out there - oh well, one can but try. We do enjoy each others efforts though here on PH, don't we? Enjoyed this one anyway Danny, so keep them coming.