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Mythic?? (Or the meaning of poetry)

Mythic?? (Or the meaning of poetry)

 

Alone, skin seared but sodden, drifting free

on Stygian rills mid steamy marish mud

that fleetly ebb to the wide open sea

My dinghy follows and must somehow scud

 

else this bled plain becomes my deathly home

Has this tale ample pathos to capture

the woe that fills life\'s tragic, noble tome?

Does any poem yield a true rapture?

 

So, knowing life is thea\'tre, but in codes

the poet seeks a verse alive with meaning

Unknown to him a secret lies in odes

These writs disdain and laugh at doom\'s keening

 

The light of Cadmus is so very bright!

It coaxes mirth to ease death\'s ghastly blight