Old broken words in spineless protection <br />At best <br />Is dimly Lit <br /> <br />Audience remains <br />Un-entertained <br />By elderly expressions that linger <br />Stuck to a page <br />Failing to age like fine wine <br /> <br />Unable to follow Yeats lead <br />Or like the gist of <br />Not the tedium that is Shakespeare <br /> <br />Contemporary Constituents <br />Live on tried and true expressions <br />When fresh words are all around <br />To be understood by the subsequent generation <br /> <br />Those in charge of the wordy world <br />Blinded by advanced degrees <br />Unable to see <br />A Charles Chaim Wax <br />A Jake Hassler <br />A Mary Nagy <br />In their time <br /> <br />Egotistic Language lords <br />Spin silk <br />From a sow’s ear <br />Eager that with ears taken <br />Eyes wont open to the fact <br />They want the swine to think its pearls <br /> <br />Apparently <br />Snobs with caviar lipstick <br />Only truly know what is art <br /> <br />Numb audience <br />Dumbly decide <br />To what is seen and heard <br />The genuine cant be seen by the unauthentic <br />Too busy stringing their cultured pearls on fools gold thread<br /><br />Wanda Swim Strunk<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/perils-of-pearls/
