Those Who Live in Grass Houses

Modern Art

Modern Art

A fine mistake it would surely be
if readers should be made to see
that my intent right from the start
is to create what might be art,
and since I do it in the present
its modernness is surely meant.

And if I say things in strange ways,
it’s just because my personal days
occurred when all the poetic greats
have had their say and become late.
The matters that concerned them then
need no restatement once again.

So if I speak of things today,
appropriate it is to say
in language quite contemporary
and methods revolutionary,
the better to speak unto my peers
and weave my spell about their ears.


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Rhymed aabb
For PromptMaster! Prize Prompt Week 2
Prompt: The thing that is most likely to cause your poem to be mistaken for modern art.