PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

So spin you,

In endless discourse

Of soporific verse,

Tales in metaphoric puzzle

For which I have no use.



The unrelenting babble

Flows freely from the tap.

Rushing… stumbling… tripping…

Blurring like vision in hapless, straining efforts

To keep these eyes from closing.



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Like the world’s great polemicists’

Who, from behind their soap-box pulpits

Declaim –



You’re a poet and why shouldn’t the world know

The wealth you have to share?



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Glorifying as it may seem,

The sound to your ears of the voice from your lips,

It’s a singular assessment held by naught but your own self

But you can’t see

-- Why? --  

Expansive declarations in absence of cognisance,

Unsound and unsubstantiated yet,

Senselessly regurgitated, allude to blatant ignorance

And fail at the profound.



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It’s admirable, but not enough,

Simply, to care about the world and

Its progressions –



The world wallows, merely, intermittently

In outbursts of despair at the apparent lack thereof.



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Ponder on this, for just awhile

The things you’d learn if only you’d listen

With open heart and open mind,

Without pre-fabricated

Convictions





Employ honesty, the most productive tool

Second to opinions formed by only you.

Listen and become informed

Then, give with a free soul and heart – full,

Untainted by the hand of pretension.