"Sea green eyes and golden tresses
Light a Grecian maiden's face
Child of Pericles's city;
Sadness of young years confesses
Lending her a native grace
And she demands no pity."
Here's another incomplete piece I wrote, unrelated:
"Have far and wide enough about the soul
I journeyed by my mortal mind to see
The tributaries that had guided me
Impoverish inside a miry shoal?
Has amply taken been my journey's toll
On head and heart of mine for me to be
Absurd Quixote or a debauchee?
My mended inner shreds do not make a whole."
Both pieces are incomplete. I'm quoting them as samples.
Is poetry like this something people might still like? Is it marketable? If I wrote a book of a hundred or so poems like this, could I get a contract anywhere?
I need your honest opinion, please. This is important to me.
Light a Grecian maiden's face
Child of Pericles's city;
Sadness of young years confesses
Lending her a native grace
And she demands no pity."
Here's another incomplete piece I wrote, unrelated:
"Have far and wide enough about the soul
I journeyed by my mortal mind to see
The tributaries that had guided me
Impoverish inside a miry shoal?
Has amply taken been my journey's toll
On head and heart of mine for me to be
Absurd Quixote or a debauchee?
My mended inner shreds do not make a whole."
Both pieces are incomplete. I'm quoting them as samples.
Is poetry like this something people might still like? Is it marketable? If I wrote a book of a hundred or so poems like this, could I get a contract anywhere?
I need your honest opinion, please. This is important to me.