The Poets Crossroads

The Poets Crossroads

I think I’d like to play a game,

where famous poets stake their claim

around a table we’d apply

our crafty words upon the di.

A jumpin’ joint on southern road

where poets gather to unload

their rolling words from dusk till dawn

with bois’trus crowds to cheer them on.

On stage the poets would gather so

with Hughs, Cummings and Edgar Poe,

Will Shakespeare, Yeats and Angelou,

Mark Twain, Frost, Li Bai, and Du Fu.

All would journey to play the game,

called to table, their pride and fame

with fausty judge that talks in rhyme,

haiku panel that measures time.

Night after night excitement grows

when metrists deal their crafty prose

to challenge all their fellow bards

all measured strictly by their yards.

Best brevity’s chocked full and loose

chromatic colors give them spruce

a limb of words that they can strut

but careful now, cause’ they can cut.

It all happens and unfolds,

at poet’s corner and crossroads

don’t believe me, just come and see,

on fun filled website called A.P. 😉

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Link to "All Poetry" Website