Censure To Approval

Concur thee that while criticism leaves-                   
I dread to understand what it perceives, 
Almighty fragments leaving it for dead                                   
And if at all - all else, it too deceives.       

I ask, if not for otherwords - a 'but',  
Not equal to the terse but minute tut!
 Will do, when equal option poses threat
How masterful is one contained in strut.   

Agreed! It is important having made-                         
And pass it on as judgment to invade 
Forlorn in this enquiry, heat of phrase,
The privacy of thoughts to which we fade. 

I gloat on any verse which is approved                      
And only they may say, "I have improved", 
Not knowing who they are or what they do
Again, is gross disdain I am removed.  

Intention from the glory finding hold
If mind be trained, on whether it be told  
The evil, from where criticism leapt;
Whenever it is used it’s simply cold. 

To mask the said intention can but hurt,
What testing chain of infrastructures blurt 
In which the outer frequencies resist,
Who louder than you do, raised self alert?  

Who classifies the style in which defeats’,  
Have certainly out-measured sombre beat 
Like equaling the lungs exhaled in part; 
By every phrase or form when time repeats.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2008



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Date: 6/3/2009 5:45:00 PM
Very beautiful poem you have painted for us to read, i enjoyed it every bit! Congratz on being featured also!
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Date: 6/3/2009 7:27:00 AM
Congrats Titus on the refeaturing of "Censure to Approval." Vince
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Date: 5/31/2009 1:09:00 PM
Congratulations to a great poet and best of luck in the next round. Ernilando
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Date: 5/31/2009 11:14:00 AM
Congrats on your awesome piece being featured this week. You are such a wonderful poet. Keep up the great write. Adeleke
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Date: 5/31/2009 10:29:00 AM
Titus, your use of rubiayat poetic form works well with your poem. It has many insights that you have written very well. Congratulations on having your poem, "Censure to Approval" featured this week. Keep writing. Always, Dane"
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Date: 5/3/2009 6:01:00 PM
Nice wrok Titus and best of luck in the next round...Raul
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Date: 1/31/2009 7:16:00 PM
Titus, this is wonderful. I enjoyed everything about it, but mostly, how it made me think! Very well done! Donna G.
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Date: 1/29/2009 9:53:00 AM
Congratulations on your lovely poetry being featured this week..God Bless you and best wishes to you in your writing..*Tyesha
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Date: 1/28/2009 5:23:00 AM
Congratulations on your poetry being chosen to feature this week Titus. May you have many more excellent poems featured. Love, Carol
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Date: 1/27/2009 3:49:00 PM
Titus ~ An inquiry of sort, where you are asking and telling the world what they can expect? But then, why should a poet have to divulge their momentum, outside of a "piece", now termed as so, while our whole being is so capped into a legacy we understand! Love, Paula Larson
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Date: 1/26/2009 8:59:00 PM
Congratulations Titus, on "Censure To Approval" being featured. Vince
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Date: 1/26/2009 9:57:00 AM
Congratulations on your great poetry being featured this week. Love, Shar
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Date: 1/25/2009 11:33:00 AM
Much to think about here. Interesting reflection of the challenges of a creative writer in a competitive environment. Congratulations on having your poem featured. Keep on writing. Karen
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Date: 1/25/2009 11:18:00 AM
So well written, and as the poem describes the feeling one has when our work is critiqued by advice from others....excellent work here! Congratulations on this poem being selected for the featured page this week! ~ Carrie
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Date: 12/14/2008 2:57:00 PM
I like... you to have a way with words... *Breana*
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