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.
