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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410445" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lion & Honeycomb</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He didn't want to do it with skill,<br>He'd had enough of skill. If he never saw<br>Another villanelle, it would be too soon;<br>And the same went for sonnets. If it had been<br>Hard work learning to rime, it would be much<br>Harder learning not to. The time came<br>He had to ask himself, what did he want?<br>What did he want when he began<br>That idiot fiddling with the sounds of things.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He asked himself, poor moron, because he had<br>Nobody else to ask. The others went right on<br>Talking about form, talking about myth<br>And the (so help us) need for a modern idiom;<br>The verseballs among them kept counting syllables.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So there he was, this forty-year-old teen-ager<br>Dreaming preposterous mergers and divisions<br>Of vowels like water, consonants like rock<br>(While everybody kept discussing values<br>And the need for values), for words that would<br>Enter the silence and be there as a light.<br>So much coffee and so many cigarettes<br>Gone down the drain, gone up in smoke,<br>Just for the sake of getting something right<br>Once in a while, something that could stand<br>On its own flat feet to keep out windy time<br>And the worm, something that might simply be,<br>Not as the monument in the smoky rain<br>Grimly endures, but that would be<br>Only a moment's inviolable presence,<br>The moment before disaster, before the storm,<br>In its peculiar silence, an integer<br>Fixed in the middle of the fall of things,<br>Perfected and casual as to a child's eye<br>Soap bubbles are, and skipping stones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a><div class=q>
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Another villanelle, it would be too soon;
And the same went for sonnets. If it had been
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