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Language of Poets

LANGUAGE OF POETS


For a moment let’s linguistically speak.
Men have their self imposed limit
They choose to make their language bleak
To women it’s nonsense – no word is unfit

No man would normally say
It was a delightful day
Or a child is so sweet or lovable
Or a cat so cute or adorable

Or that pretty pink flowers are – well - 
Pretty pink flowers….hell,
We’re guys after all and, Hey, 
We can’t allow ourselves to say

A certain forbidden word
A word that shouldn’t be heard.
Other men may think we’re
Not real men  -  they won’t come near.

Imagine if Keats felt that way
His love’s “tender taken breath”, say,  *
Would have to become ”her wheezing”
To allow for male-listener pleasing

Wordsworth  “could not but be gay”    **
He ‘d have to be just “kinda happy” -
A lot more macho in its way
And poetically kinda snappy.

God preserve me from such buffoonery
‘Cos  without doubt I’d sooner re-
read  Wordsworth or  Keats
Their words complete and effete are such treats.



Note:

*    Bright  Star,     by  John Keats
**  I  Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,     by William Wordsworth