It Is Not Poetry

It is not poetry many literary experts say of rhyme
Though it was the poetry of a now long gone time
As dead as the dodo as some like to say
And the dodo has been dead for many a day

Rhyme had it's good days but few things do last
It does look like the day of the rhymer is now in the past
In future years years blank verse the now  in thing may well be dead
Of changes in the Literary World who knows what lay ahead

Back in the nineteen fifties when i was a schoolboy
Reading the rhyming poems of the old wordsmiths i used to enjoy
But blank verse in the twenty first century seen as the in thing
Of the praises of rhymers nowadays few do sing

It is not poetry many literary experts agree
Though lovers of rhyme will tell you differently
They believe that the  spirit of rhyme will rise from the dead
And will be the in thing of the decades ahead.