Sarah's Lament - Sarah Tonan

Now everyone I meet these days
tells me that they’re writing poems.
Not modestly: they’re sorry that
they’re not the Poet Laureate.
They rattle on like metronomes
about their skill. I’m in a daze.

So why’s the Guernsey Poets blog
not inundated with their verse?
A Sonnet shortage? Odes as well?
Not even one neat Villanelle
or little Haiku, short and terse?
Attention poets, it’s no slog

to get your arsis* into gear
and send your precious poems here.


Sarah Tonan

* A poetical term referring to the unstressed syllable of a metrical foot.