Quitting is not in my make-up <br />It’s not something I do <br />I’ll give my brain a big shake-up <br />To find those new rhymes past due <br /> <br />I no longer write poems easily <br />Particularly the kind that last <br />Dismayed, I admit, most queasily <br />My rhyming days seem long past <br /> <br />Perhaps my few fans won’t give a whit <br />After all, a Shakespeare I’m not <br />Ogden Nash had such wry wit <br />It’s his wit that I’ve not got <br /> <br />And when it comes to Mr. Gilbert <br />Of Savoyard fame <br />I’d be nutty as a filbert <br />To assume I could play in his game <br /> <br />It feels like a poets curse <br />This rhyming disappearance <br />Not able to create a verse <br />With any rhyming coherence <br /> <br />Quitting is not in my make-up <br />It’s not something I do <br />I’ll give my brain a big shake-up <br />To find those new rhymes past due<br /><br />Stanley Cooper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poets-curse/
