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A Poem A Day
Everything’s faster these days
Cars and computers
Mandolin players and ocean polluters
Bullet trains
And mass shooters
We’re masters of distillation
Bit and byte cognation
And, of course,
Advert infiltration
It’s never been a more fitting time
To abridge a whole life
Into abbreviated rhyme
But the role of the poet
Has always been to slow it
Down
Consider what makes a king or queen
A worthy courier
Of a crown
Cook a billion or trillion year cake
In order to
Missive make
Fit the growth of a redwood tree
Into the pod
Of a pea
It’s ironic that just
To read
A poem a day
Could help you find yourself
The player in a play
As fiery as the love
Between Romeo and Juliet
As history-changing
As an astronaut or a suffragette
It’s only a few brief moments
And yet
The world at large
Can be found
In a thimble
The mystery of the cosmos
In a five point
Symbol
The slow plod of time
In words so nimble
That you’re not aware
Your life has been changed
With just a bit of the alphabet
Thoughtfully rearranged
Comments
gregwa8
Mon, 2019-03-25 01:13
thank you, drey hommies!
thank you, drey hommies!