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Sovereign Keats

               Sovereign Keats Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem To bear all naked truths, And to envisage circumstance, all calm: That is the top of sovereignty. Hyperion II 203 To accept all With...

Christ in the Color of a Bend

Christ in the Color of a Bend The scope of perfect yellows is displayed Along the curves of tulip petals near My door.  One tint is on the sweep arrayed Across the tops of shell-like shapes.  The cheer (When no severity can touch soft sleeves) Is waving in the April...

Tulips

                   Tulips An ordinary darkness covers them. It’s just the night.  And they . . . they are only Tulips.  It’s not like death has dragged her hem Across them.  Why not let them be lonely In their detachment from the light?  But no, I have to take my...

The Crescent-shaped Royal Ransom Revenge across the Centuries

  The Crescent-shaped Royal Ransom       Revenge across the Centuries Wikipedia The Lionheart King Richard won and lost The Holy Land but on his way back to Misgoverned England he was caught and tossed Inside a donjon by a kangaroo Middle European greedy duke...