Par Excellence
...for Robert Frost
Simple words, and simply said,
uttered with such grace, the poet's token;
nature's fables for the heart and soul
so eloquently spoken. For animals
and flowers humanity and love are
manifest, echoing through his verses,
renderings of an art put to the test.
He speaks of lives in union, shared joys
and sorrows all to each their part;
and of how to toil alone: "As all must be",
he said within his heart, "whether they work
together or apart;" of things macabre
and ghostly, conceived to send a shiver
up your spine; of toil and tribulation out in
the pasture, 'mid scrub oak and pine.
A man of simple living,
his poems and their meaning shall attest;
a lyricist par excellence,
may songbirds serenade him at his rest.
Copyright © Keith Bickerstaffe | Year Posted 2006
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