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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- Олег Бундур – Доброта
- Battle Of Corruna by William Lisle Bowles
- What think You I take my Pen in Hand? by Walt Whitman
- Sonet 34 by William Alexander
- Николай Гумилев – За стенами старого аббатства
- Messalina poem – Alfred Austin
- English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. In Examination. Руперт Брук.
- Intimidation by Satish Verma
- Oh Stay At Home, My Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock: On the Thanksgiving-Day for His Majesty’s Recovery.
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