MY TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM BLAKE

Here’s one I wrote earlier

REMEMBRANCE

 

You were the angel coming

                                                          Vision seer in a bright tree.

                                                          Yours was the eye of poetry

                                                          The voice that led to depths

                                                          Unheralded. Did you shake

                                                          The cage’s bars in vain?

 

                                                          The tiger’s roar was your unswerving life.

                                                          The arrows pierced the sun and bled men’s

                                                          Engines upon the ground. Against the

                                                          Castle of machines, you laid siege.

                                                          Yet the factory world heeds you not?

  

                                                          Fire kindled in a free man’s heart

                                                          Friend of prophecy everywhere-

                                                          Simple and wise, the court’s fool

                                                         Whose stiletto words lifted my eyes.

                                                         See those angels dancing in the trees.

~ by wr1tething on November 27, 2007.