In This Poetic Intent Herein I'Ve Partly Failed

Upon this fairly scribal yet oversize, 
Very squarish or rectangular tablet, 
Do I scribble and scrawl these very words, 
And those of the completeness of at least a brace, 
A twain, a pair of poems, though
These are, after a fashion, hardly meet. 
Albeit, they are not so ill-fitting for all of that. 
They are good poems, those I've today 
And herein written;
Yet to themselves, they ascribe all 
Manner of different motives, 
Emotions and motifs. 
Yet I purpose not hereby and herewith to delineate 
All the consequent, attendant minutiae compassing those 
Works; no, my purpose herein is to 
Fashion a poem much less circumspect, 
Summary, and oddly essayistic 
Than quondam ones, yet in so doing
I've partly failed-no matter. 
Yet this poem and those indited formerly, 
They weren't inscribed beneath some large, 
Tyrannous, blindingly refulgent
Saharan sun;
Nor were they beneath the caliginous caul of the night
Scrawled hereon, nay;
It was my oddest delight to compose these at a time of day 
Quite interstitial to those abovementioned.
Yet some inky darkness even now depends
And lends its crepuscular, darksome weight to the entire tableau:
That of a poet-writer over his tablet, 
Head bent low. Yet, a dichotomy, I find, crops up
Herein, as a more modern meaning of tablet coexists 
With that upon which I actually, diligently write
This: Which is merely a glorified book of notes.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017



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Date: 12/14/2018 12:40:00 PM
Hello Douglas Cate, a great write on this poem. have a nice day my friend.
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Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 12/22/2018 1:59:00 PM
Welcome to Poetry Soup. Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year.
Date: 12/28/2017 1:18:00 PM
Youvr not failed at all...
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