Poetry Today

Theme: Poetry

"The essence of poetry"
Said Robert Frost
"Is that in translation
Which gets lost"
But yowlers to this
Pay no heed
Raw words to them
Is poetry indeed
 
To them today
It does appeal
To write about
Just how they feel
Lying in bed
What comes to head
Then arrange in lines
Of two, three, four
There’s no pleasure
In poetry anymore
 
Rhyme now stinks
Faces uncertainty
Stares at it
Banshee
A new system’s being
Advocated now
Where rhyme’s not needed
Anyhow
A new world order
I suppose
Where Toddlers would memorize
Nursery prose!
 
……….(c) 2010 Ravinder Malhotra

Reviews

[J.P. Bristow]

........you speak the truth!!!! Into my favorites this goes!!!

[Ed Hart]

rhyme was always a mnemonic device...now that we are (mostly) free from that, we can sour, or crash...and, shedding that dancing meter was another vote in our favor...at least for those of us who like to swim and not keep one foot on shore...Ed

[Nayan]

Loved it Sir!

Truly spoken of! But what I feel is that if the poem has a beautiful flow, it is as much lovable as a fully rhyming poem. :)