online
poetry
becomes competition
and tinged with some aggression
with top of the charts postings;
and it’s all democratic
vote-bartering included
and with ratings from 1 to 10;
poetry begs
number of clicks
and poets master
publicity stunts
and scratch-back
love affairs;
but let us not
be hasty and
frown
on this
for poets before cyberspace
be it Homer or Tu Fu
or Kalidas
were probably as human
as their online descendents
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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