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
- The Princess And The Goblins by Sylvia Plath
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- Омар Хайям – Небо кушак, что облек изнуренный мой стан
- La Nuit Blanche by Rudyard Kipling
- The Upstairs Room by Weldon Kees
- O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig! by Walt Whitman
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Одиночество
- A Child Of War
- Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet I
- The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart by William Butler Yeats
- Lines Written On A Blank Leaf In A Copy Of The Author’s Poem “The Excursion,” by William Wordsworth
- The Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Алексей Жемчужников – Отголосок девятой симфонии Бетховена
- Champagne 1914 15
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