Good/Bad

Good/Bad

For 50 years I've felt my poems

Bad – no good – no bad.

Grant me now the sweet relief

Of thinking they are good,

Like any poetaster

Who worships what he writes.

It won't make them any worse

Believing that they're good.

11-5-13

A String Of Stanzas

For a constant liar

A man who tells the truth

Is a motherf-cker.

I'm sitting in a booth

With a cup of coffee

In Denny's after 3

On an autumn morning

Writing poesy.

Or so I think I am.

The booth is surely real,

But what I'm calling poesy

Is simply what I feel.

Take the halter off,

Unrestrain the mare,

Neither young nor female,

It would still be there.

11-5-13



Anyone interested in reading a book of my poems can buy them cheap on Amazon and Kindle.  Almost all the print books are $10 or less (at least one is $12.50 because it is very thick), and almost all the Kindle versions are a dollar apiece, a few are $1.50, again because they are bigger.

I recommend "Ten Chaps", "Poems Published in Amazon Magazine", "Endymion Awake", "Keats and the Sea" and (the most accessible) "Motley Chaos".  

My name is Joseph Hart.  And all my books can be found on Amazon by clicking "books" on the drop-down, then typing "Joseph Hart Poetry" in the bar.