Untold Masterpiece

Longfellow tried,

Frost too,

Poe failed,

Eliot's through.



The greatest poets,

wrote the greatest pieces,

but the same thought,

and their mind ceases.



They couldn't do it,

but had to try,

they worked their words,

their quills still dry.



They stared at the figure

cursing through the night

how someone so gorgeous

choked their ability to write.



Her beauty so vast

that cripples all men

unsurmountable, undescribable,

unwriteable by pen.



05-16-2003

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Ruth Lovejoy's picture

You don't make clear here who the person is the writers are trying to write about..You make the writers sound like failures and I don't understand that. Please explain-thanks