Refusal to Mourn Dylan Thomas

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Open Poetry #39

Refusal to Mourn Dylan Thomas

Grinch
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since 2005-12-31

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Whoville

0 posted 2006-10-28 04:45 PM

Did Thomas doubting hack the sapling tree
that held his taste
and cause the very boughs to crash and break
which bore his fame?
Whose own life blood surged deep within that vine,
into that cup, that blessed and cursed his name.

That man of words, who reaped the readers ears
with imagery,
who harvested such praise and such disdain
fell as the corn.
Laid flat by cheers upon a mocking voice,
yet in his sullen art was not forlorn.

On soil away from valleys and from woods
a poet died.
Sad oaken box marked with their knotted praise
and his excess.
Free to become the weaver that he was
a genius in words and nothing less.

[This message has been edited by Grinch (10-28-2006 06:00 PM).]