Poetry and Bathostry

                 Poetry and Bathostry

     Poetry and Bathostry are antitheses.

That is momentous, descriptive, evocative,

Memorable perfection, controlled and gracious thought,

Which draws a comprehensible picture of life

In metrical designs of vivid artistry.

     Shapeless, undisciplined, prosaic, vague, This is

Arhythmic, ungrammatical and trivial,

Unpolished, unimaginative, dull,

Unlovely, colourless; a travesty of That.

     If This is Bathostry – the rife disease of change

Infecting countless minds with its infirmity –

Whose victims heedlessly reject those principles,

(On grounds of age alone), which have enriched the world

Through time with genius – then That is Poetry.