Verbal Cantrips
Warbard 1967 (Los Angeles)
First, Just Words
Quest of the heart,
Comes without choice,
After first vision,
Before the first voice,
A true word of caution,
Great or small that you be,
Oak worships a willow,
Tree understands tree.
Belladonna
And then it seems, as if a dream,
A maiden on her steed appeared,
But as dreams are, far as a star,
Beyond my reach, Rhiannon fades.
On Maturity
To tell the youth from one who’s grown,
The answer is clear to see,
For the elder wish to be a child,
And the child, an adult thinks he be.
On Inspiration
Whatever be your lot in life,
Whatever be your da’n,
Strive to be the brilliant flame,
That burns when the ember’s gone.
On Money
If money be the root,
Of evil to us all,
Then go to church and purge your sins,
At your local shopping mall.
About this poem
These are selected shorts that were brought together to reflect upon.
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Written on 1985
Submitted by Warbard on September 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X XABABCXC XXXX XCXC XXXX XDXD |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 729 |
Words | 144 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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