Sample Poem

 

Professor Bacon Speaks Tenderly

 

Professor Bacon speaks tenderly of tensive-

ness; I am less at ease.
That is, I am more at ease
being more at ease,
having taught myself
to be untaut, that is,
to run a quite tight ship.
Into my poetry I’ll permit
of it none, nor
syntactical mischief
disingenuous enjamb
mint or wintry wordplay.
No slant rhymes.
Or dithyrambs
 
I do yet regard the poem’s
body as ruddy,
an other I might in kinship
with Dr Bacon
come to know nearly
biblically.  Oh but now
I am all aflutter
better to stay far from
epiphany.
 
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