Drawing A Purple Blank Verse After Gelett Burgess Purple Cow Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Drawing A Purple Blank Verse After Gelett Burgess Purple Cow



I've never cowed to purple prose
know now I'll never write it,
for anyhow true writer knows
hand stretched finds critics bite it.

I've never wowed, and goodness knows
hacks lack the knack of versing,
won't bow, kowtow to backhand blows,
preferring role reverse_sing.

Ah, yes, I wrote on purple prose,
yet can't regret I penned it,
one far prefers rhyme's timeless flows,
no blush need rush defend it.

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(10 February 2009)
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