Showing posts with label MOST ENDURING CLICHÉ OF THEM ALL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MOST ENDURING CLICHÉ OF THEM ALL. Show all posts

Friday, 11 November 2011

MOST ENDURING CLICHÉ OF THEM ALL (2000)



The solidifying form remains to be beheld - unseen -
that now love, me, does fullest crown;
Making you that enviable queen
of being born to such unknown renown.

That bridled halter, your quick mind does now beget,
this cant'ring movement of your art;
What owner, then, could have no small regret
for thorough-bred ideals - in ev'ry part.

So, I evade the darkness, with its doubt and lies,
by seeing who you really are;
For no cosmetic ever truly beautifies
the respect which sought your highmost repertoire.

Whose furrowed shadow clouds the lowly, shov'lling field,
to plough through ev'ry single file;
While you sow - avoiding fallow yield:
A sunny brow that sets upon your dewy smile.

Yes. This windswept sea, which you so rightly toss,
does sail me on to each deep-water port -
Wide Atlantic I must learn to cross;
perfecting all the dreams that you, and I, had wrought.



Copyright © 2011 Frank TALKER. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute it in any format; provided that mention of the author’s Weblog (http://poetryftalker.blogspot.com/) is included: E-mail notification requested. All other rights reserved. Frank TALKER is also the author of Sweaty Socks: A Treatise on the Inevitability of Toe Jam in Hot Weather (East Cheam Press: Groper Books, 1997) and is University of Bullshit Professor Emeritus of Madeupology.