Read Requests

Be the healer of this brain depressed

And accept with grace my read request

Diagnose me from the symptoms of my poetry

Between the lines are the many kingdoms of this psychology

 

Dissect the anatomy of this body of words

Follow the old doctoral regimen

Observe this endangered specimen of radioactive verbs

Tell me if anything major is imminent

 

Pronounce plethora of pronouns cancerous

Or declare my prose preachy or cantankerous

Does my poem keep up the ghastly charade?

Of my true nature’s masquerade

 

Though my writing is my metaphorical pill

I need you to do your job and tell me still

If the wretched writing from my wanderlust quill

Needs but just a Nyquil

Or is terminally ill

Reviews

[h d e rushin]

crazy are those read requests...Last I looked I had well over 680.....I couldn't get to 680 in
680 days...lol. It is not an exact science, nor like a love affair, where there's give and take.
And to me one of the more unfair systems of gratuity known to mankind. So here it goes:

This is certainly an enjoyable read with a lovely and lilting rhyme scheme.There is a reason
I don't rhyme anything. I'm just not good at it. But you are very good at it. There is nothing
major imminent and even if it were, I wouldn't say it here for all the WC.ORG world to see.
I have come to realize that some poems in accordance with fact and reality (I guess like some
people) you let go and profess absolute belief in. This made me smile which can only mean,
that from beginning to end, it was sincere.....Well done....dana

[Rocans]

Thanks Dana, you are spot on! I couldnt review a half of that in years! I am elated you think I rhyme well. I am even happier that it made you smile. It means I have connected on some "pleasant" level. :)

[Tricia Pattinson]

Entertaining poetry. I hope thou doest practice on one's own poetry writing in diagnosing remedy. :-)

[Ashira Macy]

I really liked this. The reader begging the speaker to diagnose them by looking at their words is a cool concept. It t we still long to be told what we are feeling sometimes, because we are only human, and we don't always know ourselves well. Well done.

[icelandicblue]

This was fun to read and I especially enjoyed your rhyme. Thank you for sharing your enjoyable thoughts.

[Rita L. Sev]

Yes, that IS just what we are asking when we send a Read request - a diagnosis for the symptoms of the soul manifested in our words. Though I could never declare your prose to be neither preachy nor cantankerous, Rocans! A clever piece, with a reminder to handle RR's with care.

[Briana O'Connor]

Oh my goodness! This is brilliant. Never in my most brilliant of moments could I have written such beautiful, blissful depth about a topic such as this. This was completely entrancing. I just can't say enough about how perfect this is. Thank you for sharing.

[MomzillaNC]

Great words and gracious way to request compliance with a read request.

The meter gets rather lost, though; it's rather distracting.

[Frieda P]

I love the satire of this one...and the ending is killer, good stuff, never thought to write a ditty about read requests, an original for sure...

[BennyBooth]

Not bad mate... I like it... was a little confused with the beat in the second stanza, it didn't fit the rhyme of the rest of the poem... I often do this because I don't consider myself a writer of technique, so if you write like that then it is fine.... I just know that if you add a rhythm and a rhyme it is always best to stay in time... :))