Poetry, Smoetry! Poem by Denis Martindale

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Why bother me with poetry? That's not my scene at all.
Forget the rhymes A B A B that drive me up the wall.
The haiku poems seem too short. I don't get what they mean.
Three lines for someone's half-baked thought, they hardly set the scene.
With Shakespeare probably the worst that school kids want to learn,
As if their brains are fit to burst. As if their stomachs churn.
Then there are nonsense rhymes as well. They jibber-jabber on,
With many words so hard to tell, with all my patience gone.
A friend of mine was kind to write my sentiments all down.
He worked on it by day and night, so much it made him frown.
By reading out his poem now, I share my point of view.
If you love poetry somehow, I guess it helps you through!
Just give me pop songs any time, then I will sing and dance,
But keep your poems and your rhyme as they deserve no chance!


Denis Martindale. June 2021.