KEBLE PSALM (to Emily wherever)
“They shut me up in prose” she marked –
A dialectic cell –
The polar oppositions of
A reason to excel.
The cloister – chapel – quadrangle –
The library – the lawn –
The polished composition of
A logic closely drawn.
Our fathers have engendered us –
Our mothers have inspired –
The patriarchs identify
The matriarchs desire.
(8 August 2010, London)
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1 comment:
I have been inspired by my mother to write poetry. I like how the poem rags on prose. I think Emily Dickinson would have liked it. Holy Oaky, you've done it again.
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