If external action is effete
and rhyme is outmoded,
I shall revert to you,
Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class
the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse.
He said; and I think I repeat his exact words;
“Hebrew poetry is prose
with a sort of heightened consciousness.” Ecstasy affords
the occasion and expediency determines the form.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sculptor by Sylvia Plath
- Стефан Малларме – Отходит кружево опять
- Arcades poem – John Milton poems
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Николай Языков – Воспоминание
- The Name poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Shadow of Crows by Ndue Ukaj
- music.html
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season by William Cowper
- Envoi poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Алексей Плещеев – Дети века все больные
- A Dish Of Peaches In Russia by Wallace Stevens
- Юрий Левитанский – Грач над березовой чащей
- Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry by Stephen Dunn
- So Small, So Vital
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
