Am I Prejudiced?

Am I prejudiced?

I am a slave to poetry.

I do not wish to be set free
a willing prisoner happily.

Constrained  by strict parameters.
 Which form the rules for formal verse,
to discipline I’m not averse.

Though modernists all claim to be
 Poets. I find I can’t agree.
Their work has small appeal for me.
I can’t commit to memory 

One single piece of free form verse.
In my opinion even worse
 they are deliberately perverse.

Delighting in obscurity
 contemptuous of clarity.

Yet still they claim it’s poetry.

9-Oct-07
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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