Saturday, November 22, 2014

Keats

when I think of you
it is 1818 and you are ambling
Scottish lochs and crags with Brown
and marvelling at truth you see in
silver waterfalls and
green isles
shimmering in mist

stepping ancient paths
stick in hand
just twenty-two and yet so set
on this journey of yours
to write great verses
to create beauty rivalling
the cliffs of Helm Craig

did you know that this would be your
one
great adventure
two weeks of twenty miles a day
past the homes of Wordsworth and Burns
feet touching timeless
sure set earth
from lowlands to highlands

and your mind gleaning romantic
light
to set down
your young timeless stamp on the  
truth/beauty

of the ages?

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