Michael Shepherd - The Poem That Failed

There is a place where significance ends -
that is the place where the metaphors tire
and the similes dimmily fail to inspire
and the poem runs out in a meaningless flood
but the poet won’t give up and declare it a dud

for the critics they spot and the readers they know,
you can get up and go, it’s the end of the show…for
there is the place where significance ends.

Michael Shepherd

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