<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540570" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bad Poem Daze</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleep walking towards </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Another narcoleptic day</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Given free change</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> For free coffee</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> To stay awake</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> On time for life</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But out of step</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> On time for life</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But out of step</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The rhythm</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Is not </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A slow shoe shuffle</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The rhythm is not</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A saturday of amnesiac dreamers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I am sure this RTHYMN </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> looks better </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Badly spelt</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> For we all have them</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> These 'bad poetry days</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Of imagining in writing</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There is rythnm</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There is rythmn</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There is rhythm</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There is rhythm</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> In what we write? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But somedays</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Our feet are out of time</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There is a bright incompletion</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A hope at failure</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A 'version of getting it right'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And sleep walkers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Always wake up in the end</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> In another room</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Another place</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Without a map</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Colliding with reason</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Free from behaving as 'they should! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Blame it on the dream</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The hypnogagic dispair</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Of being somewhere</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Of being somebody else</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> This time is not </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> a 'designated bad poetry day'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Bad poetry is in a strange way</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The bad medicine</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> making us better</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Telling us...........it's okay NOT to try harder</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The verbs fallen off the end of the sentence</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The noun is 'open to suggestion re-invention</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The adjective is cliched out of all possible exstinction</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Who can know the trees better, than Wordsworth? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The lark more melodious than Keats? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A canon is not just for firing lose ammunition</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Off a tongue, into the back of beyond</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> It is 'a storehouse for lovely things'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But bad poetry</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Is the bled heart</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> The tramped out</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Trumped up hollow of a broken dance</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A chord fallen</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> From a perfect descant</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> It is the word that unwittingly breaks free</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Bruises ugly from the beautiful</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> It is the unrelenting pattern</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Beneath the rain</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Always falling down</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Beating its own rythmn</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Out of time</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Stepless</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Yvette+Smith">Yvette Smith</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=540570" data-title="Bad Poem Daze de Yvette Smith" data-description="Sleep walking towards Another narcoleptic day Given free change For free coffee To stay awake On time for life But out of step On time for life But out of step The rhythm Is not A slow shoe shuffle The rhythm is not A s..."></div> </div> </div>

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