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Ode a La Keats

O burgeoning soul of sweet things mellowed to summer's surge, with autumn's dim appraisal loitered to a final song of ditties, the oozes of eve ferment my fewest keen-felt purges; Apollo upon his throne spinning rhyme wild and weary in his gilded city, shall he sing thy posy prims in deep delved halls with lamenting love on his lips ---- stars his eyes, moons his garland, and zephyr, his breath honeyed in Elven tongues? How I faint to find my words whistled in wind, some blacker beauty in light, some arrayed longing begging from dark, Mountain to moe-hill in the shades of vales, the swell of seas soothed in tinge; Mother Earth my palette ---- She of rainbow hues and Bright Stars! How kingdoms fall harsh, lidless in forest dim darkness! darkness! too barren, too ravished.... naked without even shadow; shall I clothe thee with wisdom? Sprinkle thy skin with the canvas of the heavens? Steep in the silts of rills and the leavened soils of bubbling brooks drink thy vintage feverish for the nectar of nightingales soaked in song the gods shall push thy pen prancing, dark winged as smooth-perched rooks O wan child fettered and foiled! thou needed a swifter love all along; thou canst express with bitter deeds ---- idle words too sober without melody, a better posy than Shakespeare's?

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Date: 6/26/2014 6:38:00 AM
Thank you for entering my contest with this stunning work. Your images are simply beautiful. I love the lines "How I faint to find my words whistled in wind" When we write and speak our words linger on long after we are silent.
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Keith O.J. Hunt
Date: 6/26/2014 12:27:00 PM
Thanks Monterey, it was an honor! Always~~~Keith~~~:-)
Date: 6/23/2014 4:47:00 PM
This is awesome work!! No wonder it is in the winners’ list..Sara
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Date: 6/22/2014 12:57:00 PM
you are welcome... :)
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Date: 6/22/2014 12:47:00 PM
Congrats on a fine win!!!! A truly wonderful ode my friend!!!!!! BBBRAVOOOOO
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Date: 6/22/2014 3:44:00 AM
Hi Keith! This is a beautiful ode, written with so much passion and admiration. I admire Keats immensely; studied all his works and often find myself reciting favourite lines of his! He writes...he paints...he radiates beauty! Congrats on a very deserved win. // paul
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Keith O.J. Hunt
Date: 6/22/2014 11:37:00 AM
Thanks Paul, I too am a huge Keats fan; I have I think all his works and he was 'The Grand High Priest of Beauty' as a critic put it. No other poet achieved more in 4 years than him --- I find his poetry simply intoxicating and I owe much to his genius when I do sometimes 'paint' effectively...
Date: 6/21/2014 10:28:00 PM
Keith, a wonderful win.... xox..Linda
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Keith O.J. Hunt
Date: 6/22/2014 11:38:00 AM
Thanks Linda :-) Always~~Keith~~~
Date: 6/20/2014 10:57:00 PM
Congratulation on a great win on the theme of Letters to poet, keith
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