![]() Another Thirty Years?A Poem by Wilyem Clark
Tony Bennett just turned ninety.
What's his secret? Single-mindedness? While I hop between two worlds-- The trussed-up elegance of self-containment Versus the chaos of human society, Rife with capering harlequins-- I assume he plunges headlong ahead In undistracted, oblivious bliss, Belting out pressed-in-vinyl standards. Whereas I, o whereas I Can't settle on a tune to trill: I choke upon the opening notes. There must be somewhere some sort of song That epitomizes who I am, Or else these volumes bearing witness Don't amount to a single seesaw hum. These poems are so many solo acts, Hooting or strumming out of tempo, Their hundreds of strains in disarray; They overlap, they collide, they thrash. A decade more of this? Gives me the shivers! More after that? I'm chilled to the core. © 2016 Wilyem Clark |
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Added on December 17, 2016 Last Updated on December 17, 2016 Author![]() Wilyem ClarkWashington, DCAboutI've been writing poems since my teens (now in my 60s) and prose since the 1990s. It's been hard finding decent forums online--the free websites too often suffer sudden deaths. My "published" works ar.. more..Writing
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