Original Thought

The strive for orginality. How it's completely pointless copying or even trying to learn too hard.

 

As shadows of age start to delicately fall

Merely lichen gathering on lime washed walls

I'm given to dwell on this foray through life

Will a soul often fail against mortal despite?

 

A Micawber true, ready and keen

In hope of venting original spleen

We are slow; it seems, this nettle to grasp

Cerebral aspect from nature hatched

 

Darwin, inspired, set the context in train

How daring bright genes are ones that remain

Innovatory species most often remembered

Ones in their wake quickly dismembered

 

Horror is hidden on well trodden angles

Through form and stricture, muse can be strangled

Ideas and dreams definitely stall

If slavishly cast to Academia's wall

 

Hard progression piled in the temple of knowledge

Allows provender for own honest forage

Gold isn’t formed in alchemic proclivity

Even pearl cast on swine demands ingenuity

 

Ieuan Cilgwri (c) 2008

Reviews

[Brett Campaigne]

You have an excellent grip on language, gleaming wit and a few intensely memorable passages with insight and texture.

but your poem is what it accuses.

[Scott H.]

I really liked this piece. It has a wonderful Renaissance-esque feel to it. I also find the Darwinian stanza to be my favourite, followed by the fourth. Well-worded, rich language.

[Brandon Meyers]

I really like this one. The third stanza is fantastically worded. Nice job.