APOSTLE - (poem for #AudioMo - Day 16)
Season 2018, Episode 25, Jun 16, 2018, 09:03 AM
Apostle (homage to Seamus Heaney)
How do I poem a verse for a god of letters,
stumble out crafted phrases fit for his grandfatherly face?
‘Give up, sit down, keep your head below the parapet.
Leave him to treat with Zeus and fire-stone syllables’.
The soul in my finger hesitates before putting pen to line,
before I light flame from his Easter candle.
I remember what it was like before we were introduced,
the soil without any hyphens growing there.
A moan, a lament, a complaint, sans espérance
but it’s well-faded now,
like the whistle of corncrakes
in the thickening growth of fresh sedge.
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