<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549026" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Contempt</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let us enjoy our poetry<br>a given in a land that's free.<br>Though politics may bother some<br>ignoring it will keep us dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A limerick overshadows time<br>the pleasantries of clever rhyme.<br>Free verse is mastered by a few<br>though much of it resembles pooh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So many live inside a trance<br>where words perform their lovely dance.<br>We must, as poets stay alert<br>lest they may take our favourite shirt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our leaders ought to know the rules<br>that we are not pathetic fools.<br>Yet they behave as if exempt<br>and practice, laughingly, contempt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Herbert+Nehrlich">Herbert Nehrlich</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=549026" data-title="Contempt de Herbert Nehrlich" data-description="Let us enjoy our poetry a given in a land that's free. Though politics may bother some ignoring it will keep us dumb. A limerick overshadows time the pleasantries of clever rhyme. Free verse is mastered by a few though much of it resembles pooh. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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