a dressed-up with make-up party favor

a dressed-up with make-up party favor

 

poetry is politics

without the grime

just rhyme

and a dime or two

thrown into the cup

by the stage

where the bard

will rage

against the machine

being not too keen

 

on the likenesses

of the characters

in between the lines

where syllables breed

statutes that count crookedly

when the pentameter

is bent with misappropriation

for the impromptu verbs of consequence

 

and nouns sit out in the cold

without an adjective to cloak them

but an angry poet to choke them

of all sentiment

 

not even one adverb or preposition

to vote no

against ending the poem

with a couplet

only the upper-case nouns

might understand.

erin-cilberto

5/4/25

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

Bring them in; don't let them sit out in the cold_ there is room for all even for the free verser

[Soren]

Loved this one and its meta metaphor. This could have gone on forever just like those extended terms where antiquated words died in office. Homonyms, Antonyms, Synonyms on and on. Very nice

[Sami Khalil]

The upper echelon vs. the lower subjects.
You are brilliant, sir.

[Sami Khalil]

I felt the party goers might need little entertainment from the Mideival ways to the modern or current times.
I think some Poets are at liberty to bend some rules like Shakespeare did in few ways but the condiments are delicious and nutritious.
Hehehe!