2011-01-03

Love-Drenched Rhyme

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty/that is all
ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." 

. ~ John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn, 1884

Literary warriors like Keats had it right.
The poet must fight
and he must write

The truth is here
We hold so dear
Yet throw it away
In meaningless ways

Pick up your pen
You women and men
Who write from the heart
As if it were art

And before you depart

Will offer your life

One day at a time

The courage to find

The best of yourself.

And offering it up
In love-drenched rhyme

~Adam Stuart
January 3, 2011

Grateful to have taken the time to get to know a spirit such as Keats, and find out they shared the same Spanish Steps in Rome before they died.

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