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
- Lines Written in Windsor Forest poem – Alexander Pope
- Олег Чупров – Богатство
- The Rose Of Battle by William Butler Yeats
- Alone in Crowds to Wander On by Thomas Moore
- Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney
- Alone by Siegfried Sassoon
- Зинаида Александрова – Молодой месяц
- Hope A-Left Behind by William Barnes
- Trial by Ruth Padel
- Владимир Солоухин – Утро
- Nube by Manolo Arriola
- Sonnet CXXXVIII by William Shakespeare
- Essential Beauty by Philip Larkin
- Омар Хайям – Был бы я благочестьем прославиться рад
- Яков Полонский – Одному из усталых
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