When Verlaine Speaks to You

Sing swift and savagely! Remember  

your day’s atramental muses, imagines

of where life ought to have led, if

only hand and feet had been as pitilessly

in sync as mind and heart can be….

needs to be spilled when ardor rages.  

Chose your words--the slings of love

as Eros nocked his bolts--without mercy

or trepidation of vision. Stalk

the stubble of Eden’s misplanted plots,

withered passions cropped too early,

too late in the season. Leave nothing

to chance or circumstance!

All the rest is nothing more than writing.

Ken e Bujold

Author's Note

last line is the last line from Verlaine's Ars Poetica

Reviews

[Arundass TP]

I liked last line. Poem is good. Good work