In Protest Of Academic Cliques – Sonnet #9 Poem by Stephanie Eve Kane Arado

Delightfully strange, odd, misanthropic
Personalities create the artists
Discuss any literary topic
Tweed wearing cigar-smoking egotists
Competing intellectual prowess
Academic clique building strategy
Language cloaked, poised for intellect regress
Smugly waits to make young poets edgy
Feeding selfish, splintered identities
Restricts new ideas from floating freely
Wisdom suggests open communities
New scholars experiment easily
Survive rigorous initiation
Designed to hamper imagination