Bemused

beMUSEd by Michael R. Burch Perhaps at three you'll come to tea, to have a cuppa here? You'll just stop in to sip dry gin? I only have a beer. To name the "greats": Pope, Dryden, mates? The whole world knows their names. Discuss the "songs" of Emerson? But these are children's games. Give me rhythms wild as Dylan's! Give me Bobbie Burns! Give me Psalms, or Hopkins’ poems, Hart Crane’s, if he returns! Or Langston railing! Blake assailing! Few others I desire. Or go away, yes, leave today: your tepid poets tire. Keywords/Tags: Ars Poetica, art, muse, inspire, inspired, inspiration, inspirational, poet, poets, famous poets, poetry, poems, famous authors, famous people, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, Langston Hughes, psalms, Robert Burns Orpheus, or, William Blake's Whistle by Michael R. Burch for and after William Blake I. Many a sun and many a moon I walked the earth and whistled a tune. I did not whistle as I worked: the whistle was my work. I shirked nothing I saw and made a rhyme to children at play and hard time. II. Among the prisoners I saw the leaden manacles of Law, the heavy ball and chain, the quirt. And yet I whistled at my work. III. Among the children’s daisy faces and in the women’s frowsy laces, I saw redemption, and I smiled. Satanic millers, unbeguiled, were swayed by neither girl, nor child, nor any God of Love. Yet mild I whistled at my work, and Song broke out, ere long. A Passing Observation about Thinking Outside the Box by Michael R. Burch William Blake had no public, and yet he’s still read. His critics are dead. The Difference by Michael R. Burch The chimneysweeps will weep for Blake, who wrote his poems for their dear sake. The critics clap, polite, for you. Another poem for poets, Whooo! Ah! Sunflower by Michael R. Burch for and after William Blake O little yellow flower like a star ... how beautiful, how wonderful we are! blake take by michael r. burch we became ashamed of our bodies; we became ashamed of sweet sex; we became ashamed of the LORD with each terrible CURSE and HEX; we became ashamed of the planet (it’s such a slovenly hovel); and we came to see, in the end, that we really agreed with the devil. dark matter(s) by Michael R. Burch for and after William Blake the matter is dark, despairful, alarming: ur Creator is hardly prince charming! yes, ur “Great I Am” created blake’s lamb but He also created the tyger ... and what about trump and rod steiger?