NATIONAL POETRY DAY, 2023 ...

 NATIONAL POETRY DAY ...

To The Good Man (Though Goodness Knows Why...!!)














My "activities" now are cards and poems ...
I hope I do them reasonably well ...

But, when I say, "poems" ...
The Good Man reacts ...

Badly ...

As tho' to Pavlovian bell😉 ...

You see ...
He doesn't like poetry! ...

Oh no!  My heart will break! ...

Poetry's one of the few things I do!
One of the very few things I make!

His dislike of poetry goes back
To his long-ago days in school ...

When learning poems was punishment ...
For inattention ...
Or playing the fool ...

So, whenever I say "Poem" ...
The Good Man groans aloud ...

But I don't care ...
I keep writin' em ...

" ...bloody...
But unbowed*"😉 ...

(*From "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley)

Ffion