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
- A New Heaven (To-On Active Service) by Wilfred Owen
- St Ives by Roald Dahl
- acts_of_love.html
- The Courage Of Shutting-Up by Sylvia Plath
- AN HYMN TO THE MUSES by Robert Herrick
- “When I Have Borne In Memory” by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Плещеев – Бабушка и внучек
- Валерий Брюсов – Её колени
- twinkletoes.html
- Robert Burns: The Wren’s Nest: Fragment
- Innermost One by Rabindranath Tagore
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Молись в ночи без плача о заре
- Goddess In The Wood, The by Rupert Brooke
- Низами Гянджеви – Где путь в кумирню
- Юлия Друнина – Дочери
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