A brand new poem I began, <br />The first verse went quite well, <br />The second didn't go to plan, <br />So things weren't going swell... <br />The poem prompted other rhymes <br />Instead of those I chose, <br />It's never done that other times, <br />So that got up my nose! <br /> <br />'How dare you intervene! ' I said, <br />'That simply isn't done! ' <br />Yet every time I pressed ahead, <br />The battle wasn't won! <br />The poem wanted something else, <br />The like I've never known, <br />That sounded all my warning bells, <br />'Be off, leave me alone! ' <br /> <br />Did it give up? Did it give in? <br />Did it respect me, then? <br />Oh, no, it had new words to spin, <br />New words beyond my ken! <br />Some foreign words! They're not my style! <br />They're not my style at all! <br />I've not tried those a long, long while, <br />They drove me up the wall... <br /> <br />The poem said, I'd no excuse, <br />Well, that's a flipping cheek! <br />The poet has the right to choose! <br />So why write French or Greek? <br />The poem sighed... as if to con <br />And get some sympathy... <br />But I was glad when I pressed on <br />To write MY poetry! <br /> <br /> <br />Denis Martindale, copyright, July 2013.<br /><br />Denis Martindale<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/naughty-poem-2/
