Resurrecting a ritual: I hope
To restart the now cold Friday night fire.
Twenty sixteen circumstances by whole
Made solidarity more de rigueur —
So it felt. Pandemics and global strife —
Seems times covet it further and not less
To be sure. Plus camaraderie will be,
So says I, our last port to gratify.
Without poetry and company no sense
Can be made of this actuality.
— joystjohn
To restart the now cold Friday night fire.
Twenty sixteen circumstances by whole
Made solidarity more de rigueur —
So it felt. Pandemics and global strife —
Seems times covet it further and not less
To be sure. Plus camaraderie will be,
So says I, our last port to gratify.
Without poetry and company no sense
Can be made of this actuality.
— joystjohn
So, the kingdoms that are divided are Poetry&Company on the one hand, and Pandemics&GlobalStrife on the other? I surely would like to gather 'round a fire. I tried briefly to spy a system for internal rhymes and near-rhymes here, but could not. They seemed random (but appreciated). What is meant by "by whole" at the end of the third line? Is there a meter happening? Sometimes I think the person writing your poems is a bit different from the "you" that I converse with casually. I like the poems, yes, but this one has portions that seem to come from a scholarly, lofty place from which our pitiful goings on can be seen for what they are, but then the view changes with a word or line, and it's coming from another place. I dunno. Maybe I'm crazy. (Macoff)
ReplyDeleteI actually had a point of DIVIDED KINGDOM in particular that I wanted to tell when I started this poem. But the poem had other ideas. I like your interpretation of what's divided just fine, tho! There was rhyme in here - - it was a Keatsian Ode structure. I like that you couldn't find it, tho. Neat.
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