Spent not are the voices of the by-gone poets. Interred not by earth profound. Transgressed not by time’s incessant passage. The verse ere marked by the plume of the pensive; The ludic; the bereavéd, All sustenance for the spirit creative. Muses of the writers of modern age. O art unassailable, tongue primordial, light of radiance eternal, Bulwark ‘fore the chaos of a decadent world. So transcends the poet’s writ the maxims of the kosmos; Our ephemeral existence molded by stricture. That which comes of the pen— Embodiment of the amiable, and the embittered; The opaque, and the transparent; The leaden, and the gossamer; The facile, and the onerous. Oh Maestro del Verso, with thy ink and thy pinion Art thou edifier of universes, of languages, of conscience; Porter of tidings; bearer of wisdom and welter; The stones that impede the tumultuous seas; The safeguard mid the tempest coming. Thy hands, they bid the wan and wax of Luna and Sol; Thy mind, the river’s very ebbs and flows; Thy song, the harvests’ bountiful growth. Thy *****, the rains' arrival and repose.
Yea, poet, go on! Progenitor of worlds, Master of thy creation.