eric sundin

How happily I’m hounded
by persistent a muse
so gratefully astounded
enthusing out the blues

Am a tree happily barked up
by inspiration infused
It’s brimming over my cracked cup
foamy verbiage suffused

Verses may be pathetic
in pace peripatetic
The language mere cosmetic
both opaque & bathetic

Delivery homiletic
its effect anesthetic
While response found apathetic
why be apologetic?

Very few poets a Byron
or Shakespeare or Neruda
Very few women a siren
and few gurus a Buddha

So what? Won’t us short on talent
at least attempt to be gallant?

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peripatetic = walking or traveling about; itinerant

edited 02/07/24 1735