Where Have All the Old Words Got Me
...[Where Have the Old Words Got Me?: Explications of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems, 1934-1953] [Author: Ralph Maud] [February 2003]
Some of the rest I must use;
they are jeans and sweats; they...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
explications, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Repeat of Yesterday
...Predestine—perpetuation;
bathing-still-here-in
numbness-seemly
Inefficacious—permanence;
drowning-in-seemly
somberness-now
Outlived effectualness;
seems
Presumptuous notions;
bring
Explicat...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
explications, crazy, for her, life,
Form: Free verse
I Let You Go
...What was I thinking?
I let you go.
I wasn't drinking, still
I let you go.
Where was my head at, to
Let you go?
I can't accept that I just
Let you go.
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
explications, absence, miss you, missing,
Form: Lyric
He Who Creates Re-Creates Himself
...for René Passeron*
You may not grow old too soon
if
Things you have known will come back to you again
No revision nor recall need put them back in place
Time was wh...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
explications, art, time,
Form: Didactic