<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452158" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Imbecile Like Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love it when kind people tell the uninformed like me <br>their definition of a poem and poetry, how outraged <br>they feel when they come across accounts of small <br>time events which I force on those who innocently <br>wander the sacred portals of real poetry </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Knowing such highly gifted and perfectly informed <br>critics are around makes all feel safe, they carry the <br>banner of rules and regulations, metre, rhythm and <br>rhyme, we can all sleep safe while these Sherlock <br>Holmian custodians of literary device and charm</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleuth a Scotland Yard for us; making us follow the <br>classical poetry of Ovid and Vergil and seeking to <br>promote the Italian sonnet, to be repeated in just <br>one way; although it is impossible for an imbecile <br>like me to improve, I appreciate their solicitude </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I beg them to kindly forgive my maverick effusions <br>as joie die vivre at being free to do my own thing <br>when not translating boring source texts, leads me <br>down the path to literary perdition, free innovation <br>and enthusiastic improvisation, there is no hope </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of my mending my ways while words are running <br>untethered and free in my head; I refuse to don the <br>mind-forgéd manacles William Blake lamented, do <br>not walk the streets to comment on suffering; but <br>read little books for little people to uplift my soul…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Margaret+Alice+Second">Margaret Alice Second</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=452158" data-title="Imbecile Like Me de Margaret Alice Second" data-description="Love it when kind people tell the uninformed like me their definition of a poem and poetry, how outraged they feel when they come across accounts of small time events which I force on those who innocently wander the sacred portals of real poet..."></div> </div> </div>

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