Poetry Plea
POETRY PLEA
There was a time when every word and phrase
Each sentence stanza paragraph and verse
Was written, with a clearness to our gaze
When simply made, extravagant or terse
Crafted in empyrean structure did they seem
With lucidity and freshness of a dream. *
Though perhaps this retrospect views life 'en rose'
By one who mourns more recent language trend
Please excuse an old curmudgeon to oppose
Loss of rhythm, rhyme and form when words are penned
In wild emotion stream, no punctuation
Unshaped, obscure, unfitted for oration
I concede that those in anguish loss and pain
May find solace in expression, ease the ache
I will greet some words bizarre that rules profane
And find space for conscious stream and Finnegan's Wake
But let's start from proven cast fore violation
Symmetry in form and grammar's affirmation
* Hat tip to Wordsworth for the inspiration of this verse
Copyright © Geoffrey Brewer | Year Posted 2017
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