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!
(Self-published. Please contact author directly to order.)
Enter the pages of diaspora in quiet introspection. Bathe your thoughts with subtle humor; synchronize your spirit-sense with history-in-heat; fall headlong with eyes wide open into
Dear readers, this is my third book of poems, and inside are a special collection of what have turned out to be not only MY personal favorites, but also the favorites of many of YOU. Some of these have never been available in print before...
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~ Sandie Angel a.k.a. May Lu ~
you do sonnets like no other...
floria
I too love Omar Khayyam,and the other greats! Superb Sonnet!
Carmen :-)