Poetry is no Alchemist

[billy]

(I do embrace what I disdain)

Not everything pedestrian rises above
the prosaic and will profundity embrace does it need a comma after prosaic?
simply because it is imaged in verse
trading a suit of plain cloth for one of lace. love this line...well i like it a lot then
Nor can poetry transmogrify the Auteur
who with bland nib of it did writ— for some reason this works well with the lace line (i think it's because it's archic chime)
when with palsied brain he did conceive—
turn from the dullard into the sharpest wit.

©2012 –Erthona


Note: As this piece is too low to deserve high praise, and too light to deserve weighty consideration, I have placed it in this section; however, critique as you will.

Dale

it's a coming together of two eras and the only nit i have with it (and even then i'm not sure) is "did it need a comma"

the 'he did' worked well for me

oh! one more nit; are both 'the's' needed on the last line.?

nicely done, thanks for the read.