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
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- Manifestations by Tom Shea
- In The End by Sara Teasdale
- Николай Карамзин – Клятва и преступление
- Rhyming Reply to a Note from Captain Riddell by Robert Burns
- A Man Young And Old: IX. The Secrets Of The Old by William Butler Yeats
- Don039t Lose Hope
- The Wind In Woone’s Feäce by William Barnes
- Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery by William Morris
- Bill ‘Awkins by Rudyard Kipling
- Face Lift by Sylvia Plath
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