For Most Words Poem by Francis Duggan

For most words you will find there's a word to rhyme
That's how it has been now for centuries of time
But nowadays literary experts never refer to a rhymer as poet
They reserve such a title for one they see as more worthy of note
That anybody can pen rhyme as we are often told
Does seem an insult to the rhymers of old
The rhymers who happened to be major poets after all
Their poems and their fame to this day we recall
Of what is or is not poetry they believe they do know
'Tis on their very words that the tag of poet grow
The contribution of rhymers and bush poets they do not recognize
When it comes to their judgement of a poetry prize
Quite arrogant enough to believe they have God on their side
Those mainly responsible for the poetic divide.