Short Fountainhead Poems

London born,Lancashire bred
Into Chaucer's footsteps,others he led
Medieval prosody,his 'little song' said-
Long may such sonnets be heard
Of the fountainhead of English poetic words.

Tribute to Edmund Spenser 1552-99...

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‘tis raining
greening
thundering
pelting
blessing the soil
wetting the seeds
cleaning the face
of Spring blossoms
May’s tada
in fountainhead palms
of life
sweet life
living water
freely flows
a gift to all
for precious moments
(((or))) forever
as you turn over your soul
to
the Savior

4/27/2023...

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Out of all the brave and beaten men
whose echoed cries rebound
from their victorious fields,
a soldier died, and bravest yet,
he who would travel back to the unborn--
back to the womb of weakness,
back to the fountainhead of light.

And I can hear resounding,
his last song of where the the glory lies.
And it is love.  Still it is love.
Oh it is love.
           ~...

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I am not fit
to love or contemplate
the meaning of a
palliative fountainhead
synonymous
with winter longingness
enfolded by
sudden wantonness
of scorched earth
in summer
which stems from
a strength I lack
derivative of vulnerability
exposed to the point of
frigid fragility
being how recently
I supper alone
unable to stomach 
such weakness
your absence has shown
to crave our collective
still perfectly fit...

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Each spring, the source of every brook or stream
Rises from the land which has perforce been fed
By rain that falls on earth the which would seem
To return that gift, become a fountainhead 
And issue in a rich and vital flow
That feeds all life to flourish and to grow
With this metaphor I seek to realise
The interaction of a friendship that I prize

Taken from poem: The Fluence of Friendship
28 April 2019
Contest: Rithimus Divisa Poetry...

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