Eight-line Poems

Honour

Honour

Prince of poets, Robert Frost,
died in ‘63 to our cost,
four Pulitzer Prizes won,
and for America’s favourite son
(young JFK), a poem read,
a ringing paean upon his head,
but which the greater honoured be?
If you ask me, ‘twas Kennedy.


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For Express It In Eight, 01.29.23
Prompt: 1963 - Robert Frost, an American poet, died. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times, and also recited a poem during JFK's inauguration ceremony.