[stylist] Poem - "Blake" - First Draft

[William L Houts via stylist]

Hey Myrna,

Thanks so much for the kudos!  As always, I receive your comments with 
gratitude and pleasure.  I'm pleased with the last line of this one as 
well.



--Bill



On 6/4/2014 2:04 PM, myrnaspoetry wrote:
> 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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> Sent from my iPhone
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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
>> United States of America
>> All rights Reserved
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>> -- 
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>> "Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar!"
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>>           --Saki
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           --Saki