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Villanelle: Bequeath Not An Image Which Isn'T Wholly Your Own

Villanelle : Bequeath not an image which is not wholly your own Bequeath not an image which is not wholly your own No not all the tasters of Isphaha can patch it back whole Living did you your true voice with packs of lies loan Poetasters all to echolalia Babel be haunted gone Where words will sour and curdle in a soup bowl Bequeath not an image which isn’t wholly your own No patchy poet’s torn image can verily be sewn Whose poems cannot own up to an innate soul Living did you your true voice with packs of lies loan Who says poets are not to the calling be yet re-born Which mewling mumbler hacked his way to the goal Bequeath not an image which isn’t wholly your own The easiest persona is still the begetter of the poem Words strung in any old order fit well into any old hole Living did you your true voice with packs of lies loan No treasure equal to a people’s spirit anyone disown The fearless voices of a people’s pain the world console Bequeath not an image which is not wholly your own Living did you your true voice with packs of lies loan © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014

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