Poetry: Poets

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by Marai Rataj

Created on: December 15, 2009 Last Updated: November 21, 2011

On Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner

Masons who once wrought words in the mortar of pen
Bricks of vocabulary, imagery, then
Built empires, felled governments,
Elicited laughter, and new testaments.

We, the poets stand and fall.
Stricken by genius, or opium's call.
Yet.
All gratitudes in two forms take,
One the repetition of lines so wrote
Other a Cathedral corner our rest promote.

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