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A Little, Little Lake District

A Little, Little Lake District

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An artistry might make a loch as long

As some infinity, but that we do

Not need.  A sonnet, villanelle or song

Might stretch a span beyond lochs’ blue,

But if that failed to cuddle you and me,

Its length would be blue lampoon.  Its shores

Could not be wide enough.  Eternity

Would lose its meaning for imperators

Of love like us.  A loch like this would meet

Its mockery if in its deeps it left

Out love like ours, omission its defeat.

The largest loch imagined wants love’s heft.

  The poet and the artist try to make

    A loch like love but make a piddling lake.

~ Phillip Whidden 

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