Quantity vs. Quality

Dig deep. They are your thoughts. Present them well.

Quantity vs. Quality

 

Do not sate this appetite

With a multitude of motley letters

Strung together

With no substance.

This sustenance

Will not provide

The fulfillment

Of the craving within one's cranium.

A quantity of fecal matter,

Stacked within a sentence or story,

Still smells like s**t

No matter the presentation.

Provide quality

In brevity

And saturate with significance.

Once appropriately attained,

One word will feed the world.

 

Legion

18Dec07

Reviews

[Anatar]

Although it could stand for syllable coordination, its aggressive stance doesn't really require rhyming at all. Straight forward, expressive, but without any symbolic reference or stylistic euphemisms (which I suspect is the point). Not the most "poetic" poem, because it aims to bludgeon, rather than enthrall.

[Alex Hutchinson]

Ouch. You nailed it. There are far too many words in the poems I have been judging but yours is the very definition of what I am looking for. Expect to do well with this poem. I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[Caitlin F.]

I checked this out after you reviewed one of my poems and I'm really glad that I did. I like how you sum up the entire poem in those last two lines- they're great. I think that your ideas about important, to-the-point writing rather than rambling on are something we could all use. This is a really nice piece.

[Melanie Jane Boicourt S..]

Cute. You probably didn't want to hear that word as a description to your poem but that was the word that came to my tongue and so therefor was typed by my fingers.
Love All, Mejasha