[stylist] Poem - "Blake" - First Draft

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Bill, I loved this! 'as high as swans'... Makes me sigh and think is that poetic or what!! Well done! 
Myrna

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> On Jun 4, 2014, at 3:24 PM, William L Houts via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> HI Poets, Novelists and Severe-Eyed Critics:
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> Here's a poem I wrote the day before yesterday.  It's basically a poem about being a poet, with nods to our illustrious forebear, William Blake.  There's lots of literary stuff in this one, but I think it should be fairly easy to read.
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> --Bill
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> Marooned on the isle  of 3am,
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> counting my litter of skullborn runts,
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> once I could win with these infant hounds;
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> now I'm not so gall as to call them gold.
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> My hoard is heaped with sighs, my eye with woe.
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> O for Blake to show, that soul of rhyme,
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> that captain cool and strange;
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> O for him to come ashore and put me straight,
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> to say:"From one Bill to the next, your text
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> is wild with thrashing whales, your rhyme
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> beguiles, and sonnets sail for isles as rare
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> as dreaming X." My eyes would go from glum
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> to glee, and set my hand to setting down
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> some fervent verse, some sonnet skullblaze free:
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> as high as swans,as bread as Easter's rising.
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> copyright William L. houts 2014
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> "Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar!"
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>          --Saki
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