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Apr 2017
To the Nine
A DEDICATORY ODE in NINE STANZAS
Ἀπόλλων μουσηγέτης
Ye
NaPoWriMo
ids, hear my prayer
let's mix our metaphors and dare
as fragrant smoke ascends the sky,
offend some readers by and by.
Apollo
—grant me rocket fuel
to launch into your stratosphere.
Athena
—by your wisdom, rule
and whisper in my waiting ear.
Receive this bright poetic spark
And let the
Nine
, as one, inspire
transform this puddle, stagnant, dark,
from sludge to pure
Promethean
fire.
Thou Father of
Olympus
, bless
our paltry April offering:
a dubious cybernetic mess
composed of poets' suffering.
I'll sing of waters fair (and foul),
uncork my potions for your ears
while
Dionysus'
Maenads howl
banishing winter's remnant fears.
A radiant poetic flush
beams forth from every laureled face.
The springs of Babel: let them gush
and bathe our souls in lyric grace.
A product line in low demand,
the blogosphere: our public forum;
quorum one man short of ******
where verses vie with vague decorum.
Consult your muse—then let it flow;
a rain of primaveral dreams
whose rivulets descend below
and swell the tributary streams
to flooding verses, transcendental
irrigating, bringing life
(though some are merely excremental.
Foaming sewage...
ask my wife
).
I am participating in National Poetry Writing Month 2017.
#poetry
#national
#napowrimo2017
#monthe
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