Monetizing poetry
— the darkest form of alchemy
(Villanova University: January, 2024)
Time has no value
if not well spent--
worth not in
the monetizing;
fur or faux
the animal would wear either
but man prefers
a skin—
true,
one only lasts a lifetime
while man immortalizes
his ideals
to the nakedness
of a world--
God knows His Players…
the cost of poetry
and art,
what goes into each work
with no mind
to its
marketability.
In place of guarding you as the apple of an eye
they're excavating your eyeballs out
perhaps it is better so
you ain't gonna see
what they have done to you
whom they pledged an oath
in whose name they are separating us
at those who cherish you
at those who cherish you less
to those who don't
and you are laughing at
multiplied names of yours
names are multiplying
faith is dividing
decomposing to the factors
and monetizing
200 rich families was the goal
to rest of us
eating cakes was suggested
and it had a taste of crap
completely in accordance to
how it felt
being confronted with cognition
for great design of those 200 chosen ones
other have bled
reduced on animals
which devour each others faces
our flag remains
lowered at half-staff
Today I was surfing for ways of monetizing,
I need more money, so contests I tried finding;
I clicked here and there, from Google's search result,
Until I reached a link to a contest that made me halt.
So now I am here, I just signed up today,
Poetry Soup it's called, I think it will make my day;
I do have a blog, poegging is what I do,
It's blogging poetically, my own coined term too.
You might want to visit my humble home,
365-days-of-poem-blogging dot blogspot dot com;
It's actually a challenge to write a poem every day,
This is the second for today, I'll add it there, okay?
Before I forget I'd like it acknowledged,
What a wonderful site Poetry Soup has managed;
I know there are poetry scams that linger around,
I hope this site's contest is for real, to abound.
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