Rediscovering the great poets is pure pleasure AND helps a poet write and edit …
* "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam of Naishapur" - by Edward FitzGerald
This patch of sun soon plunges into shade,
illumines leaf by leaf each yellowed page:
My fallow treasure’s airing is our aid.
We grow, Poem Compendium center stage.
Breathed anew these forgotten lines amaze.
How choice they are and how I made them chore!
While words combine with warmth I reappraise
those 'realms of gold' and learn to love them more.
Light embosses script and etches spirit,
margin annotations accent passions.
Your apprentice strives to write it, hear it:
fresh renditions cast in classic fashions.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough*
WAS my line – The Rubaiyat has it now!
A Collection of Voices from Around the World is more than just a poetry compilation. It is a partnership of poets from around the globe brought together by an internet poetry forum. That forum, poetrypages.com, has been the home of many a fine poet s
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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you do sonnets like no other...
floria
I too love Omar Khayyam,and the other greats! Superb Sonnet!
Carmen :-)