Jeffry Cohan Poet Quatrain

Special--------Spirits

SPECIAL SPIRITS
I locked myself in a library one night
No one knew and there was no one in sight
I spoke to the spirits of so many still there
Frost read me a “Road Less traveled” as I unraveled a maze

So many concepts, so many thoughts, so much beauty
I felt as if protecting those venerable volumes was my duty
No one would rape, mutilate or change a page because I was there
As Poe’s poems smothered me in frosted fear

Baudelaire betrothed me to Breckinridge
And I was captivated and captured by Coleridge
I gazed all around and imagined how many words I was surrounded by
And that Dickenson or Dickens never had to cry

I locked myself in the library to sleep around poems
And realized how many people have lost their homes
I locked myself in the library to sleep around genius profound
And that made me ruminate on to where this planet is bound? 
© 2011.….Phreepoetree

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Black Eyed Susan May 10, 2011 at 9:27 AM Great idea for a poem! I like it, however, the last 2 lines in the 1st stanza don't rhyme, whereas they do, pretty much, in your other ones. and the last line trips me up. Also, your 2nd to last and last lines of your poem are a little wordy. how about: Locked in the library I slept with genius profound/Which led me to wonder, where is this planet bound? - something like that. I like "wonder" only because of the syll. count. What do you think?