<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568100" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Poetry Critics</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our poetry critics ageing males on saturday evenings from six to nine<br>Meet at the literary room of the Lions Club to do what suits them fine<br>To talk of poetry and poets each to their point of view<br>Though they agree on one thing that good poets only few.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well educated gents of course and they could not be rude<br>But contemporary rhyme poets only poetasters and them they exclude<br>From their talk of poets and poetry and in their literary knowledge they take pride<br>And who is or who is not a poet seems their right to decide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They never talk about bush poets such verse they see as slipshod<br>And they see them as the children of the lesser poetry god<br>And for their years in Uni they have their degrees to show<br>And of poets and of poetry so much they think they know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To them a poem is not a poem unless it reads like prose<br>And a ballad different from true verse as a weed is from a rose<br>And true poets only write for the privileged few that's what they do imply<br>And never for the ordinary, people like you and I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our poetry critics at the Lions they meet on saturday<br>And who is a good poet and what is a good poem each like to have their say<br>And if you wish to become a member of their club you must have your Uni Degrees<br>For if not to them you are not qualified for to talk about poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=568100" data-title="Our Poetry Critics de Francis Duggan" data-description="Our poetry critics ageing males on saturday evenings from six to nine Meet at the literary room of the Lions Club to do what suits them fine To talk of poetry and poets each to their point of view Though they agree on one thing that good poets onl..."></div> </div> </div>

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