Pied Pipers

Glory be to God for dabbling poets—
   For versifiers who like to try their hand
      And heart at some poetic gem:

A villanelle that strains to overflow its
   Limits. Sonnets, perhaps, that show command
      Of rhyme and prosody and apothegm.

All poets, then, published ones or not; —
   In Poetry, in Dog Days Review, and
      Self-published, too, if that's their stratagem.

Respected and rejected. All!—the lot.
            Praise them.

© Edmund Conti