Lawrence Hall
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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
Lines for Marina Tsvetaeva
“Her poetry is…passion, pain, metaphor, and music.”
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Her words soar over utilitarians
Past pale, pedantic propagandists who
Would wrench all poetry into a cause
As if verse were but a commodity
Her picture on a Penguin paperback
Embraces the viewer, stares back, dares back
Her eyes defiant, her arms folded in hope
Armored in her famous clunky jewelry
She bleeds onto the page, into the soul
Her words, suspended in truth against the age
Oct 19, 2020
Oct 19, 2020 at 10:26 AM UTC
Lawrence Hall
[email protected]
https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
Lines for Marina Tsvetaeva
“Her poetry is…passion, pain, metaphor, and music.”
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Her words soar over utilitarians
Past pale, pedantic propagandists who
Would wrench all poetry into a cause
As if verse were but a commodity
Her picture on a Penguin paperback
Embraces the viewer, stares back, dares back
Her eyes defiant, her arms folded in hope
Armored in her famous clunky jewelry
She bleeds onto the page, into the soul
Her words, suspended in truth against the age
A poem is itself; Marina was even more truly herself.