Dissension

Dissension

A poetic dissenter is one who believes:
That the skill of old poets and their poetry
Has fallen victim to dread hyperbole
He believes he has been enlightened

A poetic dissenter is one who will say:
The poets have never been ever so great
And many could even be bested today
He thinks to overcome the masters

But a poetic dissenter, this he not be:
One who is searching or open to see
The magnificent nigh flawless soliloquies
He only searches for fault

So poetic dissenter I give these words to hear:
If you could top Poe or best Frost or Shakespeare
Then I shall consider your claims with great fear
Until then you are naught but dissension