Another Thirty Years?A Poem by Wilyem Clark
Tony Bennett just turned ninety.
What's his secret? Single-mindedness? While I hop between two worlds-- The trussed-up elegance of self-containment Versus the chaos of human society, Rife with capering harlequins-- I assume he plunges headlong ahead In undistracted, oblivious bliss, Belting out pressed-in-vinyl standards. Whereas I, o whereas I Can't settle on a tune to trill: I choke upon the opening notes. There must be somewhere some sort of song That epitomizes who I am, Or else these volumes bearing witness Don't amount to a single seesaw hum. These poems are so many solo acts, Hooting or strumming out of tempo, Their hundreds of strains in disarray; They overlap, they collide, they thrash. A decade more of this? Gives me the shivers! More after that? I'm chilled to the core. © 2016 Wilyem Clark |
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Added on December 17, 2016 Last Updated on December 17, 2016 AuthorWilyem ClarkWashington, DCAboutI've been writing poems since my teens (now in my 60s) and prose since the 1990s. It's been hard finding decent forums online--the free websites too often suffer sudden deaths. My "published" works ar.. more..Writing
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