"THE WAR OF POETRY"
(C) Copy written, 13 April, 2005, by Karla Dorman.

In the war of poetry,
there are no winners:
only tattered remnants
of dying Poets
amidst the Readers
they had hoped to slay
with written words
of greatness.

In the war of poetry,
there are no winners:
only dying Readers
begging for release
from having to read
bad meter and rhyme
(or, worst of all,
none at all).

In the war of poetry,
there are no winners:
notably the words
used as weaponry
to shatter the pen
and rip apart books -
they now lie spent
and broken.

In the war of poetry,
there are no winners:
and God save the King
who strikes out the words
spoken from the heart
of the one who tried
to bridge the gap
and spread peace.