by Neal Whitman

Created on: September 02, 2009

Never Give Up

You are not

am not a bottom feeder

when writing for common

readers: readers

who don't need footnotes

to know if a poem emotes

academics let's call obscurist

write for whom they consider

purest: purest

readers who make matters worse

don't know their elbow from bad verse

You spare no words

to rhyme or reason.

But words too obtuse

are a poet's treason.

So never give up.

When your poem is done

and is ready for bed.

Know it will be read.

So, never give up

Your work is completed

and closed like the day;

The Hand that wrote it

now lays it away.

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