I WISH YOU WERE NOT GONE FROM THIS COLD PLACE

I WISH YOU WERE NOT GONE FROM THIS COLD PLACE

Eliot
I wish you were not gone from this cold place,
I should like to have met you face to face
and reclined with you there,
in an epiphinal embrace.

You were old when I was born,
old as Prufrock when I was born;
and in the midst of my great depression,
you found your wings,
your wings  
and your final digression.

Why

 

Why do we see clearly, all,
only one moment before we die?

I hope you watch, amused,
from your advantaged position.
Michaelangelo lives,
he lives to this day
In decrepit condition.

And the women,
the cat-fog,
the gutters cry for you--
they are but useless mimes
sprawled out in a block,
in a block or two;

For no one listened to them like you.

I hear your voice in vacant lots,
in alleyways
and sea-waves.

The muses cry themselves to sleep;
I can hear them from the water's edge--

 

they do not cry for me.

Come and visit us again,
flow through your student's eager pen.
come remind us of our fate;
remind us there is time,
there is always time
to murder and create.

I shall toast my tea to you
when all the world is unetherized and new,
and watch with wondering eyes,
with wonder and surprise,
the wonder of you.

T.S. Eliot poems referenced include: The Cooking Egg, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Preludes.
 

Reviews

[Epistemmy]

This isn't a review because I don't feel I'm good enough to criticise. This is some guy saying I read it, I liked it, and I'm looking foward to reading more in the future.

I liked the allusions to subjects and things he approaches in his own work - it would be easy to go overboard in this department, but I don't think you did.

Keep it up
-Ant.

[Rob Welch , Master Of P..]

Excellent job! I loved it. The rhyming worked very well and it flowed nicely. The emotions put out were amazing as well. Lucky guy to have you write something like this for him. Keep up the great work!

[Sarah Williams]

Wow! This is quite an amazing piece...it flows very lyrically, which means that the rhyme worked! I love "ode" poems, they always have such a wonderful and natural feel to them, and this one is like a classic, reborn in a modern world. Simply blown away, my friend!

[Dawn Jones]

Came out like music.
Beautifully written.

[La Belle Dame Sans Merc..]

One of my favorite poets. . . a good tribute with clever allusions to his work.

[P.J. Sebastianus]

Its perfectly clear to see why you are the featured writer. Your work is so amazing that I have a hard time discriing how much i loved it.

[Micheal Teal]

While you may wish he was not gone , all who have read this poem are happy that you are here. Your work and words are meaningful. They captivate like wild flowers nestled in a summers garden. There is wisdom and beauty in your writing. I celebrate who you are.

[MarcZw]

�On Margate sands I can connect nothing to nothing.� I love you for this ode to one of my favourites� And nothing�s more dear to me than �the awful daring in a moment�s surrender, which an age of prudence can never retract�. But it�s not a cold place, Juliet�

[T. L. O'Neal]

This was a very good effort, I really enjoyed the last stanza of it. T

I shall toast my tea to you
when all the world is unetherized and new,
and watch with wondering eyes,
with wonder and surprise,
the wonder of you.

[Dead Angel]

wow! nice dedication juliet. i bet where ever T.S is he's raising his tea in toast to this beautifuly written poem. good job!

[Crap!]

" It's so elegant So intelligent What shall I do now? What shall I do?" T.S.Eliot from "A GAME OF CHESS" This was wonderful my dear, just wonderful! Thomas is one of my many favorites.