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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen

Saturday, September 24, 2011

A Musing

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Calliope, bestowing words as your gift
We are blessed to be touched by such a muse
With voice of beauty and wisdom, you inspire and uplift

You visit dreams of poets with thoughts adrift
Daughter of Memory and of Father Zeus
Calliope, bestowing words as your gift

Created to lift sorrow and heal the rift
Conflict is quelled with words meant to defuse
With voice of beauty and wisdom, you inspire and uplift

One of nine dancing your praise in a shift
Crown on your head in golden hues
Calliope, bestowing words as your gift

But to your own art our thoughts now drift
Stylus in hand, what are your clues?
With voice of beauty and wisdom, you inspire and uplift

Blank is the tablet you always lift
Your words, offerings for we mortals to use
Calliope, bestowing words as your gift
With voice of beauty and wisdom, you inspire and uplift.

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