An Honest Poet’s Life Is Full Of Care
by Malcolm Massiah
Now to myself this comes as some surprise
I’m sitting writing here a tuneless song
My rusty hand’s in need of exercise
For I’ve been far too lazy for too long
In honeyed indolence I’ve spent my days
I’ve watched the changing colours of the year
I’ve watched the passing seasons through a haze
And so my memory may not be clear
I smoke a spliff and sip at my champagne
A poet’s life is not an easy one
A little sunshine and a lot of rain
Is hardly my idea of having fun
The layman sadly seems so unaware
An honest poet’s life is full of care.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Holy Day by Philip Levine
- The Sergeant’s Weddin’ by Rudyard Kipling
- Bishop Blougram’s Apology by Robert Browning
- Ay, workman, make me a dream, by Stephen Crane
- Ezra on the Strike poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Sultans Palace
- Imitation poem – Alexander Pushkin
- No Rival Like The Past
- Cake by Roger McGough
- Intruder
- The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth
- Олег Бундур – Хорошее слово
- Михаил Кузмин – В Канопе жизнь привольная
- The Forsaken by William Wordsworth
- City of Orgies. by Walt Whitman
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