<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460532" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0039 Well, chop my prose!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">…for that’s the way that poetry goes…<br>and goes…mere pose, tapped out as prose…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, most of us, these days, undisciplined, <br>approach the temple of pure poetry, <br>when some thought stirs in deepest heart and mind, , <br>with all the earthy tread of careful prose…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">yet with a certain hope, a faith, a love, <br>a purity of heart – that if we tread -<br>unmetered and unrhymed petitioners - <br>as pilgrims, sackclothed, ashen from the urn<br>of some poetic crematorium; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that, as we stumble on the heart’s true path, <br>the Muse, with long and patient, weary sigh, <br>- the music of the ages in her ears -<br>will catch up with our steps along the road<br>and guide us to that sacred, lovely place<br>where, with a gasp – our verses dropt from hand –<br>we’ll be where goodness, truth and beauty dance<br>and sing and laugh and love – now three; now one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(thanks, WD)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460532" data-title="0039 Well, chop my prose! de Michael Shepherd" data-description="…for that’s the way that poetry goes… and goes…mere pose, tapped out as prose… Yes, most of us, these days, undisciplined, approach the temple of pure poetry, when some thought stirs in deepest heart and mind, , with all the earthy t..."></div> </div> </div>

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