Free verse? Come on, it’s anything but free!
As though to compensate for lack of rhyme,
It’s fettered by a drab obscurity.
As though to compensate for lack of rhyme,
The authors of this dismal stuff pretend
That their absurdity is quite sublime.
It’s fettered by a drab obscurity
That, frankly, drives this reader round the bend -
You say it’s just my immaturity?
Not so! For me, it’s all a massive con;
I’m surely not the only one to see
The Emperors have no clothes - they’re bare as mice
When form and rhyme and metre all have gone.
Although such poetry’s described as ‘free’,
It isn’t even worth the asking price.
Last edited by Brian Allgar; 10-07-2013 at 01:31 PM.
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