Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Been-Rejected Blues ...

I've got those

low down,
good for nothin'
been-rejected blues.

My meter seems fine.
My rhyme? Sublime.
So why, I whine,
this awful mess
I find myself in,
so sad and unseemly,
loaded with chagrin?

Beats me. I've just
got 'em. Bad as they
get, I guess,
those unexpected,
pain-injected,
stripped down nekked,
been-rejected blues.

© 2001

(received an honorable mention award in Ohio Poetry Day competition)


***


Today's word: unexpected

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really like that poem, its got a nice, depressed, but yet cheerful tone.

--Meg

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Meg. I had fun with this one. I try to look at rejection as another chance to improve a poem before sending it out to someone else.

Anonymous said...

Hello again........When I am feeling blue your journal more than lifts my spirits your journal makes me smile. Your journal to me is like a nice cup of hot cocoa its that good..............I love "Chosen Words" there is nothing more to say.