PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

Relax: consider your callow condition.
Therefore, this rather fierce and broad ambition
need not have its accomplishment at once;
nor does delay demean you as a dunce.
Neither care for, nor bend to, others' thought---
for that only renders servile submission.
What you set forth to seek must still be sought.
Epics will have deferred to epigrams.
Mere academic judgments, as are taught,
are hollow rituals or empty shams---
to which the greatest poets give no damns.
Rather, they will more heartily give time
to those far greater matters: measure, rhyme,
and form to sing the subject with precision.

Starward

[jlc]