PoemHunter.com   
Stardom by Ivan Donn Carswell   
Search:     
Home Poets Poems Lyrics Quotations Music Forum Member Area Poetry E-Books
 
Ivan Donn Carswell
Ivan Donn Carswell
Biography   Poems   Comments   More Info   Stats   [message to the poet] 
...If I said I wrote poetry for a reason I’d have to defend my reasoning every day. So I don’t. I write for fun – and if it isn’t fun it’s better than .. more >>
1161 poems of Ivan Donn Carswell
File Size:1982 k 
File Format: Acrobat Reader
To download the eBook right-Click on the title and select "Save Target As".
 
<< prev. poem Poems by Ivan Donn Carswell : 13 / 138 next poem >>
  
 
Share |

 
Stardom

  i wanna be popular
she cries i don’t care how
i get there i wanna be top
of a tree with a star and
adulation dripping
off of me

then lass he says
change your ways
be less yourself and more a
vague but persistent rumour
writing verse is a
pathway to fame

i’ll do it she says i’ll
write nite and day and read
and revise and excite admirers
with the best rhymes
and nicest annotations
you can think of

then gather admirers
from friendly conspirers
he says - quality matters
but masses of like-minded
drifting together will
make you a star anyway

i want to be cried over
after i’m dead and bathed in
the same adulation i had
when alive – i want to be
held in enduring
affection

sadly he says there’s no
guarantee that your fate after
death will be properly weighed
the same crew that made you
a star on the tree will also be
dead most irrevocably
© 8 October 2009, I. D. Carswell

Ivan Donn Carswell

Share |


 
  Comments about this poem (Stardom by Ivan Donn Carswell )
Click here to write your comments about this poem (Stardom by Ivan Donn Carswell )
 
  Trenton Watson  (10/27/2009 10:29:00 PM)

good poem. very long thats for sure 10+
 
  People who read Ivan Donn Carswell

 
 
  Classic poets in PoemHunter.Com:

      The complete list >>

 
  Top 500 Poems

  1. Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou
  2. Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
  3. If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
  4. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
  5. Dreams by Langston Hughes
  6. i carry your heart with me by ee cummings
  7. I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You by Pablo Neruda
  8. Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
  9. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
  10. I Crave Your Mouth, Your Voice, Your Hair by Pablo Neruda
  11. Television by Roald Dahl
  12. One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein
  13. Warning by Jenny Joseph
  14. As I Grew Older by Langston Hughes
  15. A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
  16. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
  17. If by Rudyard Kipling
  18. On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan
  19. Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
  20. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
  21. Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
  22. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
  23. The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
  24. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
  25. All That is Gold Does Not Glitter by JRR Tolkien
The complete list of Top 500 Poems >>
  Top 500 Poets

  1. Pablo Neruda
  2. Langston Hughes
  3. Maya Angelou
  4. Charles Bukowski
  5. ee cummings
  6. Shel Silverstein
  7. William Shakespeare
  8. Dylan Thomas
  9. Spike Milligan
  10. Billy Collins
  11. Emily Dickinson
  12. Khalil Gibran
  13. Sylvia Plath
  14. Dorothy Parker
  15. Elizabeth Bishop
  16. Ted Hughes
  17. Roald Dahl
  18. Robert Frost
  19. Walt Whitman
  20. Allen Ginsberg
  21. William Blake
  22. Edgar Allan Poe
  23. Mary Oliver
  24. Robert Browning
  25. William Wordsworth
The complete list of Top 500 Poets >>
 
 

 Search in the World Poetry Database => 

 Search:    tips
 
 
  E-MAIL THIS PAGE TO A FRIEND
Found this page interesting? Recommend it to your friend!     Your E-mail:    Friend's Email:      
 

(c) Poems are the property of their respective owners. All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors, and is provided at no charge..  About Us | Copyright notice | Privacy statement | Help
3/11/2010 1:43:32 PM. #.34# You Are Here: Stardom by Ivan Donn Carswell

Home | Poets | Poems | Free Poetry eBooks | Contests | Sites | Submit a Poem | Manage Your Poems | GameGar | Contact Us

Christmas Poems | Love Poems | Pablo Neruda | Death Poems | Sad Poems | Birthday Poems | Wedding Poems | Annabel Lee | Sorry Poems