This Poem was Submitted By: Mark D. Kilburn On Date: 2001-03-02 19:48:27 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Poet's Lament

  Everyone has an opinion, myself, I just like to write.   I have written about many things; daring days and the naughtiest nights.   Sometimes they read and start crying, somedays they read and then laugh.   One time I wrote about Vietnam, one day of God's mighty wrath.   The people that really do bug me, call me up on my telephone,   saying how they'll gladly pay a quarter, if I'd write them a ten dollar poem.   They nit-pick and tear it to pieces as they laugh all the way to the bank.   Where they withdraw some shiny new silver; I guess that's their way of saying thanks.   Poetry is just a reflection, of the light bouncing off my eyes.   One day they only see laughter, other days they only hear cries.   The first poets here were the natives; it flowed in their bones and blood.   Their poetry, more a living thing, brought them through feast, famine and flood.   Today, I feel so upbeat and happy. I think I'll go and write up some peace,   or perhaps something more esoteric, like the wolf with the golden fleece.   We're all poetasters compared to the Greeks, Stevie Goodman or the great Woody G.   I will happily write you a ten-cent poem, if you'd just give that sawbuck to me.          

Copyright © March 2001 Mark D. Kilburn


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