For the Godfather



A ragged choir of crows and mockingbirds
Storms into the morning.
Where do they hale from, these precentors of the day?
What is the reason for their peremptory
Disturbance of our sleep?

They are harbingers of God’s shocking words
To us all, adorning
The staff that we must scale along our temporal way,
Admonitors to mind us of the history
That we must ever keep.
[Dedicated to SGC]
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDE ABCDEB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 374
Words 68
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 6

Lindsay George Hall

British born and brought up, classically educated.Apart from the Greek and Latin Classics, my special enthusiasms are English and German romantic poetry, but also (outwith that loop) the spare New Englander Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins. My own stuff here is largely 'retro', but I make no apology for that. Poetry, to be poetry, needs discipline.I am happy to review (or preview) poems by request (lindsayxix@gmail.com). more…

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