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
- Galahad In The Castle Of The Maidens by Sara Teasdale
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- Nature’s Law: A Poem by Robert Burns
- The Golden Year! poem – Alfred Austin
- A Petition poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Offerings. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня о жене патриота
- The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
- Юрий Коринец – Царь-баба
- Her Epitaph by William Strode
- Twenty-Four Hokku On A Modern Theme poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Joy-Bells by Siegfried Sassoon
- Desert Places by Robert Frost
- Senses by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?:
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