Modern poets if you please, <br />Stop to read this one treatise! <br />I've told this now a million times, <br />Its not a poem till it rhymes! <br /> <br />You write in lines of pure emotion <br />Chip in facts and a little gumption; <br />And expect the fact that it's verbose, <br />Cloud the truth that its just prose! <br /> <br />And once, the great poets of old, <br />Now writhing in their graves, were told <br />That modern poets after them, <br />Would meter forth these rhyming gems. <br /> <br />Bah! its nothing more than flowery script, <br />A sea of emotions all equipped; <br />To drown the reader in confusion, <br />Of olden themes in different version. <br /> <br />Spell-check once my soulphul mait <br />And take: the time, to pun! ct-uate' <br />And yet if rhymes evade Thy head, <br />Use a rhyming site instead. <br /> <br />All this blank verse that you blurt, <br />Makes my head and eyeballs hurt. <br />And my soul! My tortured soul! <br />Has lost its meaning and its goal. <br /> <br />Lord, The rotten themes you use! <br />Good heavens! Can't once you choose, <br />Themes other than love and pain <br />And spare a man going insane. <br /> <br />The saddest words of tongue or pen <br />Is sob stories of dames and men; <br />Who in the springtime of their youth, <br />Hold their broken hearts to sooth. <br /> <br />Write instead of scary ants! <br />And men who dance in fancy pants! <br />Write of fairies, elves and books, <br />And pigs and ships and hired crooks! <br /> <br />For every man will once realize, <br />That words like 'spice' will rhyme with 'nice'; <br />And hearts aglow, will then unfold <br />Reams and reams of poems gold.<br /><br />Karunakaran Prasad<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/modern-poets-if-you-please/
