Modern Lit

cry the wounds of an age
pushed on pages by pens
that forget when the gold
ring of language drew
gleaming king’s english from
inkpots where schoolboys
found grammars of words
turned and tugged into
metaphors bristling with
quotable clarity singing
with syntax that Donne
might have taken his pause
for brief moment to taste
with that eloquent tongue

– Paul F. Lenzi
http://poesypluspolemics.com/

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Remember

Stay not lost in pending silence,

Meanings drifting

On the tide of let’s forget,

Vacuum soul’s desire, upload,

Sustaining every purpose,

Fill emptiness, none lost, no sense of self regret.

Remember all and feel it with the urgings,

Empty words to air and fill your cup

With purpose pointed north,

Remember everything,

Replete, complete as nothing,

Love, the only magnet of true worth.