PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

Some people are granite, and some are concrete---

water and sand stirred, then blown by hot air.

Due boundaries crumble away, and in their

place is left only a solid conceit.

Those who believe they are most unique

are the most anxious to sound, when they speak,

like partakers of profound experience.

Their claim mostly covers lack of confidence.

The most pathetic bids for literary attention

arise, often, for a self factured in its own contention

against literary tradition and convention.

You send me a poem to read:

you state that it is not very good.

Please tell me, therefore, why do you need---

my reading, and even more so why should

i spend my time (already tightly hemmed
in by committments) on a poem you have condemned.

When a young poet, I loved such ostentations.

But Doctor Bob P---, Professor of English, took me aside---

not to insult or mock---but just to provide

a brief review of these simple observations.

Starward

[jlc]