Friday, September 2, 2022

Editors Who Checklist Poets - poem (a poem about poetry - that's redundant, eh!)

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Editors Who Checklist Poets

 

A Poet’s Autobiography is his Poetry

 

-Yevtushenko

 

A poem is itself

 

So I’m not going to play any victim cards

I’m not even seated in their game

Ticking self-pity boxes is their game

Not mine

 

A poem is itself

 

I am not anyone’s propagandist

All are free to read a poem or not

Like it or not for its artistry and craft

          (Or lack thereof)

But I won’t be a confessional professional

 

A poem is itself

 

A worthy editor is a pearl beyond price

But a literary commissar is nekul'turnyy

 

For a poem is itself

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