Thursday, June 25, 2009

HOW A POEM BEGINS (for Emily D.)

HOW A POEM BEGINS

That every one will rise again
Astounding Clemency –
That every corpus spirit meet
Refutes Duplicity –

To love – to sing – Circumference –
A Poet’s legacy –
Our Business is to Resurrect –
Resplendent Company.

(25 June 2009, BYU, Provo, Utah)

2 comments:

Poetic Painter said...

I was doing a little blog surfing and just wanted to let you know I enjoyed reading over your poetry!

Outsideofacat said...

is this the draft / beginning you meant? it flows well, the form is elegantly simple, somehow it sounds really familiar. not sure why. this has not been posted before, no? content wise it reads very much like a beginning and promises to expound on its statements with more concrete or detailed images. my impression so far.