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A couple dear ladies and cheap champagne,    

celebrate old puns,- ''and to wonder how                

the kittens are, now that they're out in bars?''       

I too, wonder how deliciously vain                              

it is to impress these sweet prudes,- The pair          

now in my imperial court as bards,                      

alone, or massed accord, revel, I'm bound                   

to repeat and descend in lip's veneer                

By virtue of true generosity,                                     

clipping your fingertips, ripping the end                 

off this rhyme's charity,- ''Bastards and tarts                           

are swindling the years of profanity!''                        

So, follow our fools' timing with dials bent               

Rehash last year's mistakes breaking hearts


— doorman, Jan 27, 2010

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Ink Dragon

16 years 4 months ago

Hi Espen,

a lot? A LOT, more like! A couple dear ladies and cheap champagne, celebrate old puns and to wonder how - the first break in logic lies here, in the use of an infinitive the kittens are, now that they’re out in bars? I too, wonder how impossibly vain to impress as my mind digress,- The pair - did you mean as my mind digresses? also the transition from the line above is missing, how about how impossibly vain/ it is to impress ? The rest of the poem works much better, though a reread after editing the beginning can never hurt. I'll be looking forward to your revisions, there is a poem in there that wants out! Yours, ~Nina P.S. Love the title!
doorman

doorman

16 years 4 months ago

Dear Nina

Thanks A LOT for cleaning up the write. I've been sloppy,- good of you to point it out. The 'first break in logic' is intentional. ''to wonder how...'' is a direct question to the reader. The second 'impossibly vain.. mind digress..', is just embarrassing. It's back to the drawing board. Gratefully yours, Espen.
doorman

doorman

16 years 4 months ago

first edit

Ok. Stuffed a little more sense into it(?). Espen.