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
- Patroling Barnegat. by Walt Whitman
- Lemmebesomethin’ by Shel Silverstein
- Sonnet 149: Canst thou, O cruel, say I love thee not by William Shakespeare
- Шекспир – Чтобы стихи, рожденные когда-то – Сонет 38
- A Child’s Grace by Robert Herrick
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Kadambari by Raj Arumugam
- Николай Языков – Услад
- Омар Хайям – Будь хмельным и влюбленным всегда
- Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire by Robert Burns
- Songs of Depression poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- When the Lad for Longing Sigh poem – A. E. Housman
- Юлия Друнина – Есть праздники, что навсегда с тобой
- Владимир Корнилов – Муки свободы
- Алексей Жемчужников – Радостные куплеты
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