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auden, magic, poetry,
Form: Shape
English playright W H Auden
also poetized with his pen
Famed for his 'Stop the clock'
his.Funeral blues gave many a shock
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auden, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
US Verse, after Auden
by Michael R. Burch
"Let the living creature lie,
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful." - W. H. Auden
Verse has small value in our Unisphere,
nor is it fit for windy revelation.
It cannot legislate less taxing fears;
it cannot make us, several, a nation.
Enumerator of our sins and dreams,
it pens its cryptic numbers, and it sings,
a little quaintly, of the ways of love.
(It seems of little use for lesser things.)
Published by The Raintown Review, The Barefoot Muse and Poetry Life & Times
The Unisphere mentioned is a spherical stainless steel representation of the earth constructed for the 1964 New York World's Fair. It was commissioned to celebrate the beginning of the space age and dedicated to "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe." The lines quoted in the epigraph are from W. H. Auden's love poem "Lullaby." Keywords/Tags: Auden, unisphere, universe, together, lullaby, voice, verse, value, revelation, cryptic, legislate, enumerator, sin, sins, dreams, love, sing, sings, singing, quaint, quaintly, lesser, greater, mortality, beautiful, writing
Categories:
auden, beautiful, Lullaby, song, together,
Form: Verse
"Let your last thinks be thanks"
W.H. Auden famously wrote
Making Wystan Hugh
My favorite male poet
Note: I have excluded all
of my favorite male
poets on Poetry Soup,
of course! :-)
Categories:
auden, poets, thanks,
Form: Clerihew