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You Call Yourself a Poet

So you call yourself a poet
And what makes you think
That you can flaunt that title?

Is it
eCos of those
Long words
Strung-along words
Seven-letter words
Plucked
From your thesaurus?

Or those concepts
You throw
That are equivalent
To a food-fight.

Those abstract concepts
That are concrete.
Or
Those concrete notions
That leave
Everyone confused.

Excuse me
But did you say
Youfre a poet?

I know
You know
That I knew
Youfve got
No clue
About the Haiku
While Ballads
Cause maladies
And Sonnets
Lose you
So I tell you

Stick with free verse.

© Umm Junayd, October 2007.

Posted by Umm Junayd on October 8, 2007 8:20 AM |

Comments

Perhaps, a good message to the budding poets!!! J For the sake of versifying a poem, one shouldnft get aloof from the concept.

So, itfs better to have a blank verse poem!!!

Your brother-in-Islam

Abdul Jawad

Posted by: Abdul Jawad | November 21, 2007 2:15 PM

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