Letter from poetry.com

Wow, what an accomplishment! By the way, I have only just noticed the wonderful grammar, surely it should read 'Only a small percentage of individuals whose poetry we have examined were selected' ?  Or, was it only one and who was it?  Mind you there's always the vague possibility that I could be wrong on this!  Any GC's (Grammatically Correct as opposed to Politically Correct!) out there who wish to comment, please feel free!

Anyhoo, I present for ... whatever ... Bah! Humbug!  My latest offering for the Memories of the Millennium, mind you as I still won't buy the book I doubt if I'll find out if it went in!


Bah! Humbug!
I looked upon the net I did, an Honoured Poet me
According to the Poetry Club, I'm one of the greatest, see?
So then I looked a little more, to those whose poems won
Is that what you call poetry? You're having a laugh, my Son!
They're mostly words just written down, in Prose but all split up
Into some lines so vertically, it makes me just throw up!
That's Prose, I say and if you think that's Poetry, you're wrong
Just pseudo-intellectuals, it don't just stink, it pongs!
That's why I use a different name describing what I write
Expressions and Observations, seems you 'poets' are alike!
You love those words that do not rhyme; to them you give 5 Grand!
No wonder I ain't won a bean, a Bard is what I am!
Until you form a Bard.com, I guess I'll always be,
An Honoured Poet in your eyes, whose work you get for free
And not even a book contract!

And now to Bloodaxe Books...  After looking up their web site, I saw that they make much of the fact that they publish more women than anyone else.  So, in an attempt at suberfuge I sent my stuff under the pseudonym of Kim Alexandria, methought a suitably androngynous, potentially feminine name.  Mind you that didn't help either as you will see!

I suppose he, sorry 'we' is/are entitled to their opinion, but then so am I and so... the following was emailed to editor@bloodaxe etc...

 Well, Neil, I'm very sorry, that you don't have the time
To try to respond personally, hey Buddy, spare a dime!
You seem to have so much to do, to edit and produce
The stuff that you already have, my word Sir, Yeh! Forsooth!
Ye Gads!  If you had 25 or 26 or 7, 
More extra hours in each day, would you be then in Heaven?
Perhaps you might just have the time to read just one or two
You might miss another Shakespeare, maybe J K Rowling too!
And as for reading other poets, really I must say,
There is another gender like the evening and the day
I wonder if you've ever heard, to say it is not hard
Would I have to read anothers' quote  if I were a Bard?
A shame if you don't publish Bards, just poets that you know
In touch with Literary Culture, oh my word a bitter blow!
But what exactly is it that you speak of in that phrase?
And if I went to soirees, I would surely be amazed
If poets read all others works and base their style on that
Could that be why when I read poems, most do leave me flat!
Pontificating endlessly in prose that is split up
On different lines, no sentences, transmogrifying crap!
At least you had the decency to sign the thing yourself
But, 'Dezr Kim Alexzndriz', just left me on the shelf!
You switched twixt 'I' and 'We' , you did, your 'Y' a great big loop
Don't worry, no graphology, no stereotyping you!
You seemed to do it by yourself, without my help so well
Could you possibly change your mindset, switch a light on, ring a bell?
Just think on this and hold the thought, Bloodaxe has broken through
Not only publish poets, but we publish Bards now too!
 
 Kind Regards
Surprise, surprise, no reply has been received to date!
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