If external action is effete
and rhyme is outmoded,
I shall revert to you,
Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class
the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse.
He said; and I think I repeat his exact words;
“Hebrew poetry is prose
with a sort of heightened consciousness.” Ecstasy affords
the occasion and expediency determines the form.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy
- Stand-To: Good Friday Morning by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты хочешь освободиться от тяжести войны?.. (РОСТА №523)
- Robert Burns: Sonnet On Receiving A Favour: Addressed to Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry.
- The Boy by William Allingham
- Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
- The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin
- The Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling
- To Arms! (II) poem – Alfred Austin
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова давние картины
- Autumn – The Third Pastoral, or Hylas and Ægon poem – Alexander Pope
- Олег Бундур – Сторож
- Alameda by Paul Blackburn
- Sonnet : To Eva by Sylvia Plath
- The Call To Arms In Our Street by Winifred Mary Letts
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
