Recess

My breath is poor,
My poetry stale,

I heard my ship mates:
"Sink or bail!"

I'll take a long rest
From my versed travails,

And hope to lie fallow
While all else avails.

If I don't recover,
Don't lose hope and wail,

So long as I breathe,
I shall yet prevail.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: I'm on a break. Critique, and wish me luck/give advice/be nice.

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Ghana, GHA

Favorite Poets: William Shakespeare, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Longfellow, William Yates, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath

Comments

Geezer

13 years 3 months ago

Don't break too long...

We need all the good poets we can get, and you are that! i am a big fan of rhyme. You always come up with some good ones. ~ Gee

William Saint George

13 years 3 months ago

Won't be long Geezer. And I

Won't be long Geezer. And I'll always look to neopoet for more inspiration.