You Can’t Reject Me!
My poem is the best you’ve seen
Its rhyme is elegant and clean
A timeless message aging through
Tis more than other poets do
As I get my laptop machine out
My destination is not in doubt
Soon I find a cyber anthology
With a main editor known to me
Delight I can hardly contain
That man and I share a name
It takes only seconds to see
The anthology’s editor is me!
Excitement now overtaking me
Publication is a certainty!
Acceptance waiting being clear
My eve of outing drawing near
Prepare a truly stylish missive
This man cannot be dismissive
Within a second it’s returned
Incredibly my verse is spurned!
At the anthology’s true core
The editor logged in once more
He saw a rhyme from one he knew
But said this simply will not do
Today a lesson has been learned
Your poetry will all be burned
For the giddy heights of power
Corrupt any man within an hour!
Patrick Mackeown, June 2006
Picture: Maare Liiv