Shakespeare In 2023
Should I assume the human form of Shakespeare? Nay!
Though in my works, of that great soul, much I might say...!
Should he happen to come into my human form?
Will I to his storm-like poetic norm conform...?
I will, yet, feel like an avatar by him sent,
What his thought on illusory life, now, is meant;
Do facts and fancies, in writing, intermingle?
Do rhymes of truth and falsehood together jingle...?
Are our mirages, myths, and truths tightly inter-knit?
Do we, about every creature's life, care a bit?
Do we applaud virtues born with and by way gained?
What use of a poem that, within words, is chained...?
The irony, image, symbolism... he used free,
Each could, within his unsaid words, hidden truths see;
Iambic pentameter did bombard so far,
Shook hands with each genre that stood, then, highest par...!
I see my Soup friends immerse and emerge from these,
By each word, form and figures bear poems at ease;
Our pens, like dear Shakespeare's, I know, will never cease,
Unless and until, in our graves, we Rest In Peace...!!!
12 January 2023
Shakespeare in 2023 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Copyright © Christuraj Alex | Year Posted 2023
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