The Beam in my Eye

By what method could i refine

these simplistic verses of mine?

They sound too much like a jingle

where rhyming and nonsense mingle.

I see published poems today

which seem to have nothing to say.

Altho they may say it well

they’re like the ringing of a bell;

Imitating monotony

without any syntax to me.

And yet i have to realize

it is easy to criticize

when my own verses seem trite

and less sensible than they might.

Walt Abbott–9-12-09