Dilettantes Poems - Poems about Dilettantes

...If you use the word languish I’m stopping my read When you speak the word nurture I’m far from intrigued If I hear you say milieu I run for the door Or when you spout genre my ears to abhor......Read the rest...

...You can’t teach poetry pro forma it’s the effort of a fool You can’t gain sagacity from a book or by the golden rule You can’t be what you haven’t lived the safety net misleads You can’t blee......Read the rest...

...PROFESSOR POETS These are poems about professor poets and other “intellectuals” who miss the main point of poetry, which is to connect with readers via pleasing sounds and the communication of emo......Read the rest...

...cheer the hell up if you can nothing cheats the hangman like enthusiasm since my next act will be to answer all your questions as your tenured professor of dyslexia throw down your eye wear blu......Read the rest...

...Standing hidden off to the side naked and alone, his aura too imposing, his cover all but blown A target of those dilettantes, consummate poseurs, his space they had surrounded —his legend t......Read the rest...

...A jackdaw is stealing my tote bag of unused words, a rodentlike kibitzer, a pecking dictator of the worthiness of sounds. If I run out of bullets now he will take over my range, blue-pencil my ......Read the rest...

...State of the Art (III) These are my "ars poetica" poems: the ones about the art and craft of writing poetry in a modern world that doesn't always recognize the artists or their work. Come ......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poems IV The Toast by Michael R. Burch For longings warmed by tepid suns (brief lusts that animated clay), for passions wilted at the bud and skies grown desolate and gray, for......Read the rest...

...An Obscenity Trial by Michael R. Burch The defendant was a poet held in many iron restraints against whom several critics cited numerous complaints. They accused him of trying to reach the "co......Read the rest...

... "Tease for Two" “Ein bisschen Zucker mit Ihrer Sahne, Sir?“ German accent smoky toned she purred Periwinkles suavely winked, then p......Read the rest...

...Poets write from experience, dilettantes rave and rant A price demanded to feed the Sage, wishing and hoping can’t Magic to wrap around the words, feelings and thoughts hard won Beauty wh......Read the rest...

...A chat room for dilettantes —singing to the choir (Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)......Read the rest...

...Married to introspection, we left for Paris And with fools and dilettantes, got carried away Living on melancholy, our quarter was poor The Seine’s romance but fiction —our fant......Read the rest...

...Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to beautiful Zurich Switzerland and the First Annual Poetry Soup Convention. Welcome poets, linguists, scribes, metrists and rhymers. Welcome poets from ......Read the rest...

...What was created to expose, now a fortress meant to hide Bastions of higher learning, masking havens safe for lies Where discourse once was treasured, the ivy droops and sighs With ......Read the rest...