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
- Epitaph on the same by Robert Burns
- As In Their Flight The Birds Of Song by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Zong by William Barnes
- Primacy Of Mind poem – Alfred Austin
- Evening Star by William Blake
- The Strange Lady by William Cullen Bryant
- Not Here by Rumi
- A Pity, We Were Such A Good Invention by Yehuda Amichai
- Валерий Брюсов – Гимн Нилу
- Sad-Eyed and Soft and Grey by William Morris
- Not Goo Hwome To-Night by William Barnes
- Ольга Ермолаева – Мир неприбран, подозрителен
- South Wind by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тост
- Владимир Маяковский – У шахтера нет чая, нет табаку, нет сахару… (РОСТА №604)
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