Don't you agree? <br /> <br />They sit hunched in front of the monitor <br />solitary beings punching out their ideas <br />and feelings on an indifferent screen <br />egged on by jejune critics who whine <br />about their lack of emotion <br /> <br />O I suffer! O I die! O I swoon! <br /> <br />Like Shelley they emote the sense <br />out of the prosaic verse they create <br />with excess of exclamation points <br />and overwrought verbiage <br /> <br />These poetic posers lack the strength <br />and discipline to work hard at pulling <br />words and ideas into a form <br />that pleases and delights <br />the serious reader<br /><br />Michael Pruchnicki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poets-are-strange/
