Villanelle:There Are More Poets Than There Are Poems

Villanelle : There are more poets than there are poems There are more poets than there are poems Eveybody writes with some poets’ tongue Do duckweed and mugwort breed well in loams If only those who teach could write poems The world will be spared many gasps in lung There are more poets than there are poems And there’d be less of those who push poems And even less of those who parse the tongue Do duckweed and mugwort breed well in loams Who says this be damned ever in dungeons Let billions rant and rage in their own tongue There are more poets than there are poems Words mean what they seem beyond their poems To hell with those who demean words with dung Do duckweed and mugwort breed well in loams Every human has a right to write poems As every bird empties its sing-song lung There are more poets than there are poems Do duckweed and mugwort breed well in loams © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013