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Growing Ageless

                                                                  

 

Blake composed prophecies into his seventieth year,

Michelangelo poems well into his eighty-eighth;

Browning wrote till seventy-seven, Yeats seventy-three;

Wordsworth pushed open eighty's gates;

Sophocles, during the Periclean Golden Age,

With a noble display of perseverance and defiance,

Completed his Oedipus trilogy in his early nineties;

Goethe, in the year of his death, at eighty-two,

Concluded his life's majestic achievement: Faust.

 

Each of these playwrights and bards of the heartbeat,

Using ink pen — the word-muse's seminal tool —

And papyrus or paper, to bare their emotions,

Drove themselves to inspiration's birthplace,

With spiritual passion and wisdom's inner-eye vision,

Soared beyond the edge, as I have, my entire adult life

And, desperately obsessed, to this second, yet do,

Searching for the next elusive verse, internal rhyme,

To deliver my aging soul to the ageless sublime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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