Precious Poetry - From PROBLEM to POEM in 7 steps by Ronaldo Siète - HTML preview

3.6 - End of an Epic Era

In the realm of fantastic fiction,

A river of ink snakes wild,

Between ridges of crumpled notes

And shreds of wasted paper.

A drizzle of sweat and tears

Drowns the saplings of fresh ideas

While bitter weeds proliferate

On freshly dug graves

Of former reputations.

A fairy tale screams in despair

When an essay murders a poem

For falling in love with a novel.

In the desert of daily documents,

A sandstorm of critique

Buries the ruined remainders

Of a once mighty palace,

Built by the Sultans of Song

Out of heartbeats and sighs.

In the cold, concrete jungle,

Under the ocean of ignorance,

Gray-eyed rulers dictate

And all that remains are the facts.