This Poem was Submitted By: Paul R Lindenmeyer On Date: 2001-02-16 14:36:19 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Raise the Bar

The punctuation's perfect.  The theme as clear as glass. The meter and the rhyme scheme  no other could surpass. Insightful permutations  abound within the lines. The critics can't deny them,  like old and storied wines. Oh how our wretched pens  refuse the muse's call. Oh how thoes thoughts that bind  divide our critiques, all. Just what emphatic ditty  will raise the critic's bar? How long till we see eights and nines,  instead of lowly fours? Oh yes, there's no perfection.  No Shelly or no Keats. Not to mention Milton, Shakespeare  Johnson, Yeats. But we mere mortal poets,  occasionally ring the bell; touch heartstrings, minds and senses,  and make the spirit swell. It's only one or two points,  I grant you nothing more. Still it takes two and threesees  with fives to average fours.

Copyright © February 2001 Paul R Lindenmeyer


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