POEMONGER

Your New Favourite Poetry

By: Warren Christopher Taylor

Yes, reading poems should feel like making love.

You fall inside. Your body falls away.

Your mind goes blank. Your heartbeats rise above.

I’ve realized, though, that poems just suck today.

They’re almost all just awful from the start.

I search in books of poems for something more.

I read and tear each garbage poem apart.

They’re all just self-absorbed, pubescent bore.

Is what I want so god damned hard to find?

I know, and you do too, it doesn’t need

To suck this way. I try to stretch my mind

To what I want to read. I plant a seed

That grows to more than prose that’s cut in lines.

To more than poets who have lost their spines.

By: Warren Christopher Taylor

I'm just like you. I love a lovely verse.

But everyday gets harder, like I pray

For water in a desert. Still, what's worse,

Am I the only one who feels this way?

You know, when we were young, we'd read a line

And it was like it made a moment shine.

The verse these poets write just never sings.

They're staring in their mirrors kissing things.

I get it. They hate rhythm, rhyme and joy.

But then I think back how it used to be,

How just a lyric poem could make me see

Beyond my life as just a little boy.

And every word flowed deep beyond its sound.

I can't give up until my verse is found.

We admitted that we were powerless over how much free verse poetry sucks.
Came to believe that rhythm greater than free verse can restore poetry to sanity.
Made a decision to turn poetry over to rhythm, rhyme and structure as we understood poetry.
Made a searching inventory of what we really like about poetry.
Admitted to ourselves the exact nature of how contemporary poetry sucks.
Were entirely ready to have Poemonger's poetry show all that's wrong with poetry.
Humbly enjoy poemonger's poems so much that we want to change contemporary poetry.
Made a list of everything we love about poetry and became willing to use it in real poetry.
Made direct amends to write rhythmic and fun poetry real, actual people would enjoy.
Continue to take inventory of every word we write and hear when it has no rhythm, logic or beauty at all.
Sought through having real people read our poems to find out that people actually love fun, rhythmic poetry with understandable and logical stories to tell.
Having had a poetic awakening as a result of Poemonger, we tried to carry this message of poetry's rhythm and possibilities to poets and all people.