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first
published in Envoi 140
in
collection, Rough Music, 2006
Bluechrome
Publishing, ISBN 1-904781-48-9
Poetry Matters
Old slipper wearing
pessimist
Had
mentioned, when he wrote of Yeats :
“Poetry
makes nothing happen…”
And
, in the greater scheme of things
He’s
right…No poem ever stilled
The
guns, prevented war, or stopped a fight.
But
poems work as epitaphs;
Become
the pillows for our dreams,
Gather
us up when times are rough :
Provide
a comfort, sooth our needs.
Poems
can conjure life or death,
Daffodils
or a thrush in spring;
Poems
have room for all mankind—
From
beauty to the kitchen sink;
Whether
in free verse or in rhyme,
The
good ones always make you think.
Patrick B Osada
“In
Memory of W.B.Yeats” W.H.Auden famously wrote :
“Poetry
makes nothing happen…”
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