new old kid on the blog, with an occasional old or new poem written off the old writer's block
Let us then spare the rod -- and save the child-like.Possessing imagination to sparePerhaps invites abuse;But borrower bewareThe Muses' accidental misuse!
Sparingly’show imagination’salways used me,but I don’t bawlabout it, old enoughto take childishdelight in everyglimmeringpittance.
Imagine--two grown-up poets acting like children! What could be more illuminating?
Let us then spare the rod -- and save the child-like.
ReplyDeletePossessing imagination to spare
Perhaps invites abuse;
But borrower beware
The Muses' accidental misuse!
Sparingly’s
ReplyDeletehow imagination’s
always used me,
but I don’t bawl
about it, old enough
to take childish
delight in every
glimmering
pittance.
Imagine--two grown-up poets acting like children! What could be more illuminating?
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