<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=446259" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wished In Retrospect</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How legitimate can contributions, <br>Of a poet made can be? <br>If comparisons are made to another poet, <br>Who spoke from a time...<br>When poets expressed themselves, <br>From a different philosophy...<br>That occurred in a past be gone history.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I always accepted poetry to be commentaries, <br>Of that which depicted activities existing.<br>But there are those who today compare, <br>A cobbledstoned road of yesteryear...<br>To a highway today needing constant updating.<br>Since those who travel on it...<br>Have mentioned little interest, <br>Of using a covered horsedrawn wagon! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And most people afraid, <br>Will always attempt to validate nonsense.<br>Since this nonsense becomes romanticized...<br>As a time when exquisite etiquette was expressed, <br>As wished in retrospect...<br>By those whose ancestors were highly illiterate.<br>And lived amongst themselves in a welcomed ignorance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And some like me are today told...<br>Our poetry is not European, <br>Therefore the quality of it...<br>Will never achieve exquisiteness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I sit to compose caring less, <br>About comments made by those...<br>Who have chosen themselves, <br>As images of correctness...<br>When generations of them, <br>Have chosen to digress!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=446259" data-title="Wished In Retrospect de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="How legitimate can contributions, Of a poet made can be? If comparisons are made to another poet, Who spoke from a time... When poets expressed themselves, From a different philosophy... That occurred in a past be gone history. I always accep..."></div> </div> </div>

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