The Poetry Rating Game Poem by Roxanne Dubarry

The poetry rating game is basically the same.
If you love a perfect poem, you give it a ten.
If it is a religious poem, you can say A-men!

If it is only 50% good and 50% bad,
you rate it a five. Both poem
and poet are struggling to survive!

Less than five means you wish you could
understand the poem. While wondering
if the poet is even at home.

Some poems use such poetic imagery,
the purpose of the poem escapes me.
Poems may be written for the poet
alone.

Am I right? Do you like to
be able to understand the poem you
just happen to be reading at the time?
Do you think the rating game is a
waste of valuable poetic time?

No, I do not think you do. If I
were you, if their poem is amazing,
be honest and tell them so.

If you like it, by do not understand it,
say your poem is nicely penned. But
I can not understand your poem.
I decided they were right
and I rewrote my entire poem!

It has really happened to me.
The comment need not remain
a complete mystery!