Finding the Bard
by cricketjeff on May 30, 2009. © Jeff Green, All rights reserved
With perfect words you’ve filled my treasure chest
Replaced the kentledge there with fabled gold
Illyrian shores of old were never blessed
With tales as rich as you have always told
You’d fill a quire with moments from a dream
Conflate my hopes with living day to day
You make me search for poetry’s rich seam
Fastidious, but in the nicest way
I’d love to make a sandwich of your verse
Compressed between the bards of every age
An exercise for students to rehearse
The greatest works that ever graced a stage
When man is made to measure all he’s been
The value of your words are clearly seen
Author notes
Six words randomly selected from the dictionary (An old edition of Chamber’s
Twentieth Century Dictionary) as directed by the contest host. Composed into a
sonnet tribute to “The Bard”, I have rhymed, I hope it doesn’t appear to be for
rhyme’s sake, but a Shakespearean sonnet rather has to
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kentledge, quire, fastidious, Illyrian, conflate, sandwich
cricketjeff is random
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