I thirst in my search
for words
that came first
in verse and in song
what's been here all along
since Peking (wo)Man
singing in the womb
at Zhoukoudian
when the first moon climbed
above branches frozen in time -
our rhythm and rhyme -
a memory of a memory
of the history
of how a poem came to be.
Mar 21, 2015
Mar 21, 2015 at 9:42 AM UTC
I thirst in my search
for words
that came first
in verse and in song
what's been here all along
since Peking (wo)Man
singing in the womb
at Zhoukoudian
when the first moon climbed
above branches frozen in time -
our rhythm and rhyme -
a memory of a memory
of the history
of how a poem came to be.
r ~ 3/21/15
My apologies to the great poet Archibald MacLeish (1892 - 1982)
