Since I Am One

Since i am one who does not have a literary degree
What is or is not poetry why do you ask me
You must know i am one who is partial to rhyme
Though many will tell you it did have it's time
Of poets and poetry so little i can claim to know
Though my love of rhyme only does seem for to grow
The twenty first century literary critics blank verse does promote
They dismiss every rhymer as a doggerel poet
They dismiss all rhymers as unworthy of literary fame
To them a writer of rhymes is not a poet by name
You ask me what is or is not poetry in truth i can say
That on such a matter i am not an expert never pretended to be this way
And though tastes in poetry has changed since i was a boy
Today writing and reading rhymes i do enjoy.