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
- Al calor de una guitarra by Mara Romero Torres
- I Am Vertical by Sylvia Plath
- Sheep In Fog by Sylvia Plath
- Олег Григорьев – Пляж давно опустел
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Свети мне, солнышко
- At the Mid Hour of Night by Thomas Moore
- Юлия Друнина – Здесь продают билеты на Парнас
- Year O’ year by Nikunj Sharma
- English Poetry. Mark Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination. Марк Эйкенсайд.
- Motto prefixed to the Author’s first Publication by Robert Burns
- Rimmon by Rudyard Kipling
- Goodbye by Robert Creeley
- To The Poet, John Dyer by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Набоков – Еще безмолвствую и крепну я в тиши
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season (3) by William Cowper
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