Brenton Booth- Two Poems

THE HEMINGWAY HATERS

Hemingway got it right

as many times as anyone

else ever did

and when he got it right

was almost as good as

anyone that ever wrote

I can’t understand why

people bad mouth him

so much these days

but I guess even the most

average writers

need something to keep

them going.

MORE THAN WORDS

How many times

have I been here

after midnight

alone in a dark

Sydney room

the fan blowing

but nothing to

stop it all

but the word

flowing now as

freely as ever

remembering all

those moments

of victory

all those poems

that came before

this one pulled

me away from

the razorblade

once again

for another moment

for another day

for another poem

that unlike most poems

is far more than just

a publishing credit.

Bio : Brenton Booth lives in Sydney, Australia. His poetry collection “ Punching The Teeth From The Sky” is available from Epic Rites Press. brentonbooth.weebly.com