Short Dilettantes Poems
Short Dilettantes Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Dilettantes by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Dilettantes by length and keyword.
The 'Cafe'
A chat room for dilettantes
—singing to the choir
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...
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Categories:
dilettantes, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Rebel In the Shade
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 to procure
(The New Room: November, 2021)...
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Categories:
dilettantes, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Generation Lost
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 fantasies played
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...
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Categories:
dilettantes, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Generation Lost
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 fantasies played
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...
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Categories:
dilettantes, fantasy, paris,
Form:
Rhyme
Now Others Sung
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 when lyrics belong to you
—in songs now others sung
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...
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Categories:
dilettantes, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Now Others Sung
A Poet writes from experience,
dilettantes rave and rant
The price demanded to feed the Sage,
—wishing and hoping can’t
Magic in wrapping a word around,
place known or thing you’ve done
Beauty when lyrics belong to you,
—in songs now others sung
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...
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Categories:
dilettantes, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
The Politician For Contest
The baroque politician walked with carte blanche
he definitely was a bona fide anomaly.
The crowd didn't like his avant-garde elan
as the low mummer turned to cacophony.
Politician calmly showed ennui
as though it was deja vu.
Crowd was not a bunch of dilettantes
becoming avant-garde took his shoes.
Then began ripping his baroque clothes
what happened next, nobody knows....
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Categories:
dilettantes, clothes, conflict, political, society,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
No Cigar
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 bleed with another’s blood
transfused each phrase deceives
The dance floor or the balcony
true seekers get to choose
And write those words their pain has forged
—that dilettantes misuse
(Dreamsleep: April, 2023)...
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Categories:
dilettantes, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Running For The Door
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
They’re chosen to impress
when the meaning is weak
Concealing the emptiness
of all that you speak
‘A labyrinth of dilettantes’
penning your verse
Can’t hide what is missing
— with these words you assert
(The New Room: February, 2024)
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Categories:
dilettantes, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Literary Circle
I feel a sense of déjà vu as I listen
to the cacophony of voices:
dilettantes discussing poetry
under baroque chandeliers. Masquerading
as avant-garde writers or bona fide critics
(black turtlenecks; color is an anomaly and suspicious),
they claim carte blanche to spew
pompous platitudes,
pronounce entire oeuvres as lacking elan
while all they create is endless ennui.
1/22/2018
For contest: Contest: Ten Words Ten Lines 2
Sponsor: Silent One...
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Categories:
dilettantes, literature, poetry,
Form:
Free verse