Musing on What's Hot and What's Not

I was thinking today that, to be truly radical now in the writing world you need to go back to writing in forms, rhyming (without trying to...poets, you know the difference. One is a flow and one is a greeting card!) and tackling sacred cows like: 'don't write poems about poetry'.
And since that is really 'the way' to break with the mainstream now (oh, Slammers will be angry and so will the unconstructed, but hey, there's just so many of you out there now...you are no longer different!) I realized I had a truly radical and groundbreaking poem in "Fruit of the Banyan Tree" (a collection by the Ruminators, published in 2009). It is called "Somewhere the Goddess" and commits the two sins of writing in rhyming sonnet form and writing about writing poetry!! And then, it's also kind of Dorothy Parker in places. Here it is:

Somewhere the Goddess

If he compared her to a summer's day

In the current age of global warming,

While turning bright red in intense sun rays

She would not think it sounded so charming.

If he said his love would stay as strong

As the moment he first eyed her eye,

When passionate ties don't last that long,

She would surely think, "He lies."

But though sonnetteers must all move along

Dip their pens in the ink of the latest fad

Fill their cups from the latest hip-hop song

Learn to write post modern verse and be glad

Somewhere the Goddess of Romance still lurks

Feeding on small, sweet sentimental quirks.

Tell me that ain't so! And guys, don't forget to bring flowers...