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Fantasy poetry

Bill Rees

Friday, July 27th, 2012

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 By sheer endeavour and serendipity
you might get lucky with, say, ninety words
as when non-leaguers tame a city team
for ninety words something gels
the cliches kept on hold
the word selection somehow right
and for ninety words a madness reigns
a line or two masquerades as total poetry
Christ they’re talking Whitebread prize
why not the Booker too?
but words beyond the ninety mark
can not sustain the poem’s pace
or a metaphor beyond fatigue
the full stop can not come too soon
type it type it now. Too late
The New Yorker debut will have to wait

Notes

Last year I had a travel memoir published called ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Book Runner.

Poetry (a fair bit being football influenced) was something I did in private but as of today no more. I hope.

Kind Regards

Bill Rees

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/fantasy-poetry/