This is my love letter to Romantic Poetry. Poets who influenced me are Hopkins, Keats. etc |
Transience What words of glass have forsaken these Which have no intent but to tease For deceitful rhymes have beguiling ways And have sealed these eyes over with a glaze These trapp’d tongues can no longer transgress So they hang in languid desperation Parched from knowledge longing to express But mind cannot speak what ghost could guess O trifling songs without queried disposition Give these conflicting words distraction May abundant life lead this mind to compliance Into Hippocrene’s pool of oblivion and silence Lest a world full of barren leaves afflicts the eye Believing life cannot sustain when words die As a blackbird cannot sing unless it be free The mind is lost when reality loses gravity Infinite seasons of transient happiness Cannot cover all in a mask of countenance When this ravaged youth of disquiet cannot see The mind’s truth is bound in dangerous constancy Songs of the mind expressed cannot moderate the senses And this light forgoes truth and remains unruly as Neither spring nor winter breaks Aoide’s song of glass As in a comatose state a forgotten soul is left for time to pass Sarah Solomon |