<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Not averse to poetry..</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you see life<br>through prose-coloured spectacles? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or has the squid of poetry<br>inked you into its tentacles? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There’s much more rubbish writ in prose –<br>though soppy verse<br>can be much worse; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or tepid epics<br>with vapid topics; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or stanzas dull<br>and fanciful; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or limericks<br>with silly tricks; or</div><div style="margin:10px 0">couplets mock-heroic, <br>like empty crocks echoic; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">lines that would be better for <br>their not being stuffed with metaphor; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">unkempt attempts at simile<br>that register but dimmily; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and ‘moanalogues’ from broken hearts; <br>sad mishap crap; linguistic farts; <br>slam-dunk bawls, that mean **** all; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">rhymes that over backwards bend<br>to cap a couplet at their end; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">elegies, whose energies<br>not rapt, but sapped; and seldom apt; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">dust-dry stuff that vaunts ‘tradition’; <br>limp Latinate, like micturition; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or classic odes<br>with massive loads<br>of sheer incomprehension..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My final word, in fine old words: <br>say what you mean… why be absurd?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459736" data-title="Not averse to poetry.. de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Do you see life through prose-coloured spectacles? or has the squid of poetry inked you into its tentacles? There’s much more rubbish writ in prose – though soppy verse can be much worse; or tepid epics with vapid topics; or stanzas du..."></div> </div> </div>

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