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Vultures Of Culture

by J. Allen Wilson — Read all 1,629 poems by J. Allen Wilson

Friday, December 19, 2003

 The fountain of rhyme has I fear, has lost its flow.

For my mind is dry and parables, I no longer know.


I sought this night for words of which to write,


for the gypsy that whispers to me, has taken her flight.


 


Hot, dry, and barren is this no mans land,


A place where parchment, is white as deserts sand.


void and empty of words, is this lonely plain.


For I crawl through this synopsis in vulgar disdain.


 


Though shelter it is that I now seek,


I find, that I…I…I am much too weak.


I fear that with this lone and worthless line,


That the vultures that circle the palace of culture,


Will at last, on wordless bones…dine.


 

J. Allen Wilson © 2003


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Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on March 12, 2005
good one

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on December 20, 2003
The depth and flow of this one is incredible!

Reviewed by Al Swanson (Reader)
Reviewed on December 20, 2003
I thought this was a vey profound meandering, although I think lower points were touched I felt that the higher ones were seen as stronger, al

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)
Reviewed on December 20, 2003
Allen this is so beautiful...
"

The fountain of rhyme has I fear, has lost its flow.


For my mind is dry and parables, I no longer know.



I sought this night for words of which to write,



for the gypsy that whispers to me, has taken her flight.







Hot, dry, and barren is this no mans land,



A place where parchment, is white as deserts sand."

Peg



Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on December 19, 2003
Excellent Allen!Superb depth of finding words within you didn't know were there!


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