Attention Span Gap
written by: Michael R. Burch
What if a poet, Shakespeare,
were still living to tweet to us here?
He couldn’t write sonnets,
just couplets, doggonit,
and we wouldn’t have Hamlet or Lear!
Yes, a sonnet may end in a couplet,
which we poets can write in a doublet,
in a flash, like a tweet.
Does that make it complete?
Should a poem be reduced to a stublet?
Oh, for that Grand Era when men
had attention spans long as their pens,
or rather the quills
of the monsieurs and fils
who gave us the Dress, not its hem!
Michael R. Burch's poems have been published by hundreds of literary journals, taught in high schools and colleges, translated into 19 languages, incorporated into three plays and four operas, and set to music, from swamp blues to classical, by 31 composers.
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