Chuck Pool, The Critics I Must Face</head><body><center><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.com/p1.gif border=0 alt=Saviodsilva></center><hr color=3C00FF size=4><br><font size=4 face=arial><b><a href=8.htm>Chuck Pool</a></b></font><br><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.net/poem/a/1.JPG border=0 alt=Poem></center><br><font size=3 face=arial><b>The Critics I Must Face</a></b></font></center><blockquote><blockquote><p align=left><font face=arial size=2><b>When I write a poem<br>The critics I must face<br>People who will analyze<br>Every word in there I place<br>They’ll talk to me of meter<br>And what my poem meant<br>Yet always seem reluctant<br>To give a compliment<br>They think they have a better way<br>To say what I just said<br>And recommend I change my words<br>To some of theirs instead<br>They’ll tell me how my poem<br>Can be better, if I would<br>Add a comma or a hyphen<br>To where they think I should<br>Now I hardly recognize<br>The poem that I wrote<br>Since everything I said before<br>Is now another’s quote<br>Who are these people anyway<br>Who think they are so smart<br>And always want to prove their point<br>By tearing mine apart<p>Perhaps I’ll do things differently<br>In the coming days ahead<br>And simply tell the experts<br>To write their own instead</p></b></font></blockquote></blockquote><hr color=0000ca size=3><center><font size=2 face=arial><b><a href=http://www.isavo.net/poem/sk4.htm>This Poem's Index Page 1</a><br><a href=http://www.yensa.net/poem/sk4.htm>This Poem's Index 2</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com/poems.htm>Poetry Website</a><br><a href=http://www.saviodsilva.com>Saviodsilva</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com>Isavo Site</a></b></font></center><SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript SRC=http://www.saviodsilva.org/r/fantasy.js></SCRIPT></body></html>