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Scraps and scribbles from 1960 - 2015 |
| Poems by Longfellow, Kilmer and Poe Were crafted with a different flow. All speaking of the everyday But ne'er in dark and graphic way. Poems were different once -I remember Reading Kilmer, Browning and Frost in December. Whitman left us Leaves of Grass; Maya Angelou crafted prose with class. The baseless rhymes writ today Talk of death and dying - an explicit display Of words that cause Great Poets to shudder, Creating charred verse-no Wordsmith doth utter. I long to read old poets classic, feel their rhyme and rhythm. To see glimmers of their styles now in prose with new life given To thoughts and feelings through words displayed in Well-planned dreams amid newly crafted ways. Longfellow's "patter of little feet" and "voices on the stair" His phrases still hold true today - just in a different lair! How sweet to hear Poe's Raven quote "Nevermore!" again; The sword still shouts "Excelsior!" to whom its sheath is g'ven. To hear words that rouse spirit and encourage discussion too Could it mean this? Was it that? Who was Barrett-Browning trying to woo? For poems should leave us wondering if what we understand Resides within the poet's heart or within the heart of man. "I think that I shall never see" Kilmer quoted again; His "poem as lovely as a tree" tumbling to an end. For once his tree its branches spread... (His words still resonate in heart and head). My sermon here is ending for my words are wretched too I cannot write the classics, though I long to write anew. Of fresh and vibrant life that springs while hope eternal grows, Alas! Our world is fighting for a different type of prose. 11/21/2015 tuc  Nomination Information ▼ . Edited ▼ . |
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