The voice said, don’t pen poetry no more.
In your declining years, you’ll only bore
or disappoint like some decrepit whore,
who’s washed-up on a sin-soaked seaweed shore.
The voice, it sounded sinister and stern.
Demanding lines I’d laid I now must burn.
A poet, no, you ain’t, when will you learn?
Your poet’s page no one will ever turn.
This voice inside my head, of course, was mine.
(Son-of-a-bitch, a senile sixty-nine)
Who wants to hear a scribbling wind-bag whine?
In verse, cough up a poem line by line.
The voice then died away, but still it grieved
the poet in my soul who still believed
that rhyme, not fake or forced nor ill-conceived,
by grey old-timers still could be achieved.
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Author:
Blue-eyed Bolla (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: After a break from My Poetic Side, due to illness, I've come back with my first offering. Hope it touches someone
- Category: Reflection
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Comments3
nicely written.
Many thanks.
Any time
Age makes no difference if anything it holds more experience. A lovely write
Many thanks, SB
Most welcome Kevin
I shall continue to whine....
Hard to say I enjoyed but a smooth ride nevertheless.
(Bound to say that - rhymers of the world unite...😂).
Nice one, DD. Let's keep the whining going.
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