Their Poetry Stays With Us

A Poet comes, a Poet goes Their poetry stays with us A candle's lit, its flame burns bright Pauses, flickers, vanishes in the night Ghostly outline traced, lingering light A Poet comes, a Poet goes Their poetry stays with us An elegant sonnet, a lyrical rhyme Iambic pentameter's syncopated time All outlast the greatest poets of the past Shakespeare and Milton, Shelley and Poe Byron and Coleridge, all once did glow Their earthly sparks long ago extinguished Their poetry lives on, forever distinguished A poet comes, a Poet goes Their poetry stays with us