PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

There will always

be the critics

waiting to criticize

and put me down

for this or that

saying I failed

no one wants

to publish me

and yet I sit

here unfazed

by all of that

with an open beer

and a sore arm

and it doesn’t 

really occur to me
that I’m a failure

as I continue

to write poetry

in spite of

all the odds 

against me which

I supposedly

can’t overcome.