"Ancestral Worship" for writers and poets is a must, for nobody really taught the ancients to invent genres: there were surely no creative-writing courses then...
Villanelle: Often I think of writer-poets of yore
Often I think of writer-poets of yore
Who wrote in fear of lords kings patrons of church
Their voices hushed humbled by the stoop they bore
Often I conjure up their solemn lives raw
And wonder how their pages weren’t left in lurch
Often I think of writer-poets of yore
Pages to patrons puppets to popes galore
Hidden chaste natures all resisting research
Their voices hushed humbled by the stoop they bore
Often addressing some damsel they adore
No more ambition than to lead her to church
Often I think of writer-poets of yore
Pauper some who pilfer to pen metaphor
Through some trope in their guts some scheme beyond search
Their voices hushed humbled by the stoop they bore
Lean those dead young despised by the loves they swore
Never knowing if their verses will us broach
Often I think of writer-poets of yore
Their voices hushed humbled by the stoop they bore
(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2017
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It also makes you wonder how many poems were lost as they were torn up and thrown away, even though paper or parchment was scarce and expensive, not thrown away lightly. I guess there was a time when the only thing a man/woman could do, in love with someone outside their status, was write a poem about it because the dream would never come to pass. In a way, things have not changed that much. Many poems are still written on dreams never fulfilled.
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