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
- On Going Unnoticed by Robert Frost
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The Lute Player Of Casa Blanca
- The May Magnificat poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Федор Тютчев – Князю Суворову
- Кариночка, любимая ты наша
- Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me by William Shakespeare
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Crocodile’s Toothache by Shel Silverstein
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Book Fourteenth [conclusion] by William Wordsworth
- 10 Things I Do Every Day by Ted Berrigan
- To Mrs. Leonard on The Death of Her Husband by Phillis Wheatley
- Аля Кудряшева – Замылим, потом замолим
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