Poetry That Isn't Poem by Edward A. Morris

Poetry That Isn't

Rating: 3.8


What wafting of wisdom! Such saccharine sound!
Deft diction's depictions, opaque and profound!
So ruminants rumble and mumble and seek
To mine out much marrow, obtuse and oblique.

My constant conundrum's more crude and perverse:
I strive not to retch at such wretched non-verse.
Fair finery flops if its form foully flows:
Each clash, pull, and smash smells of emperor's clothes.

You poets who pass pompous prose off as poem,
Go home!

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Topic(s) of this poem: poetry
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Mel Wood 04 July 2009

This poem is fantastic. I was all set up to hate it until I got to the last line. Well done! And I especially like the Emperor's New Clothes reference.

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