[stylist] A poem that I'm sure needs much work to look like its subject matter

[myrnaspoetry]

I agree with Shawn. This is just beautiful. And my dear you are gifted in your Barbara way. Never ever doubt that!
Myrna



> On Oct 6, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Jacobson, Shawn D via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Barbara
> 
> Quite well done.  I find a lot of modern poetry inaccessible (to be honest) but that one was well written and beautiful.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Hammel via stylist
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 9:42 AM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [stylist] A poem that I'm sure needs much work to look like its subject matter
> 
> Here’s a poem that I have incorporated most of my favorite words from a word list I’ve had for years been keeping.
> 
>   WOULD THAT I
>    By Barbara Hammel
> 
> Would that I could write a rhyme
> With language that of olden time,
> I'd write of fragrant roses blown
> And violets by a mossy stone,
> 
> I'd write of gentian's bluest eye --
> A smallest bit of cerulean sky --
> Of columbines all purple dressed
> And how the lilacs are the best,
> 
> Of hyacinths purple and white and blue,
> And how they're kissed by the morning dew.
> I'd write of the zephyr that gently blows And how the rainbow brightly glows,
> 
> Would that I could write as they,
> The poets of an earlier day.
> The words they chose are flowers fair,
> They are the spice of mountain air,
> 
> They are the fire in precious stones,
> And the melodies within twelve tones,
> They are the star's eternal flame,
> They are Beauty by every name.
> 
> A freshly-fallen coat of snow,
> The calm of ocean's ebb and flow,
> They're constant as a running stream
> And faithful as the soft moonbeam.
> 
> Would that I were gifted so,
> As Bryant, Shelley, Longfellow,
> As Riley, Whittier, Dunbar, Keats
> As Emerson, Lowell, Guest and Yeats.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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