Sunday, September 29, 2024

As Yeats

 As Yeats

John Clare Stokes


He wanted so badly

to be a Yeats, a Frost

even a Wallace or Lawrence 

Poets whose words he

marveled how

There were moments

when he’d get this inner

strong compulsion 

of what he wanted to

compose

but his library of words

seemed inadequate 

the result never as 

the inner thought

The old Triton

the maiden so sublime 

fighting

to win her with lines

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