Promote Your Poems! Poem by Denis Martindale

The poemhunter website showed
A lass with pen in hand
And with a smile, her face just glowed,
With thoughts that she had planned!
Her poems were such works of art
They matched her beauty well,
Such that they nestled in her heart,
Though few on Earth could tell!

Promote your poems! Yes, but how?
On TV, Radio?
Good luck with that! Yet what for now?
Sometimes that's hard to know!
But still determined, she wrote more!
Preserved them one by one
And put them safely in a draw,
For what else should be done! ?

She prayed, she sighed, she moaned, she cried!
She even typed some out!
But something summoned up her pride
And overcame each doubt!
She emailed all across the globe,
Perchance her thoughts to share
And wondrous feedback brought her hope,
As if she walked on air!

Her poems changed, became upbeat,
Renewed by sharing things,
As if her heart was made complete,
As if she had grown wings!
Her poems are quite famous, friends,
They're in anthologies!
She writes so much, she's got ten pens
And three brand new PCs!

She makes me jealous all the time!
Her poems everywhere!
I know, of course, that they're sublime
And quite beyond compare!
My poems aren't in mags or books,
In films or on TV!
I think she's famous for her looks!
She's beautiful, you see...


Denis Martindale, copyright May 2014.