Of Course You Must, 1

Of course you must call a valid poem a "write."

That belittles it, and makes its importance slight;

it makes you feel better

(without the usual gnash

of your teeth) when  you consider

your own insignificant trash.


Starward


Author's Notes/Comments: 

I object to the custom of calling a Poem a "write."  It's a Poem; the word is not profane, vulgar, or inaccurate; the word is proper, and has been in use for about four thousand years.  To fail to acknowledge a poem as a poem is, in my opinion, a tacit disrespect, a subtle insult meant to belittle the Poem's Poet, or to "cut" him or her "down to size."

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humanfruit's picture

You know the answer

Who was the one who coined the capital P in Poem, in the first place, anyways (that which you favor today)?

I'll give you a hint


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S74RW4RD's picture

My guess would be the ancient

My guess would be the ancient Greeks who first used the term.  The Greek language did not originally have a lower case, so they must have capitalized everything.  I capitalize it out of respect for the Art and those who serve it.  


Starward