Rosemarie Rowley Poet Sonnet

The Token Poetry Editor

THE TOKEN POETRY EDITOR

Sexless, unloved, this poem tycoon
Reads the heart’s treasures as the brain's boon,
And riven with erudition, explores the spaces
Where uninvited couplets kill the places

With talk of probity and probability.
This mortgaged toad of honesty gives glee
To those who find in truth a rash offence
And save their daily lies in deference

To a lone columnist like herself, persuading
All that is needed is this harvest of envious raiding
To feed the bonfire of youth and exploitation –
The seducer’s vocabulary of apt explanation

On why God is absent from the universe,
And can only be heard in exploding verse.

(C) Rosemarie Rowley
From IN MEMORY OF HER (2008)

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Old Buck June 27, 2016 at 1:57 PM Rosemarie: I've just read a dozen or so of your works. I'll not be a "poet editor" here. I'm just a "simple" rhymester so most of what you do is over my head and beyond my understanding. I've read many wonderful comments by poets I trust and they loved it. Few poets have the "range" to satisfy both the "simple" and the "splendid". :o) Thank you for sharing your work with all of us on the soup. Keep them coming. oldbuck