[stylist] Poem - "Blake" - First Draft

[Atty Rose]

Let me know darlin.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bridgit Pollpeter via stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
To: "'William L Houts'" <lukaeon at gmail.com>; "'Writer's Division Mailing 
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Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem - "Blake" - First Draft


> Bill,
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> Jackie and Chris have pretty much said it all. As a poet, Jackie has
> provided you some great feedback and in a much better manner than I can
> say.
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> I like how you sculp your poems. The literary allusions mix well in this
> poem, even the ones I don't recognize, smile. I'm always impressed with
> your vocabulary and ability to display thoughts on the page.
>
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> Bridgit
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> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William L
> Houts via stylist
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 3:25 PM
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> Subject: [stylist] Poem - "Blake" - First Draft
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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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> ---
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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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>           --Saki
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