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Printed from https://shop.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/930959-Robert-Frost-Sower----Write-an-Encomium--in-Blank-Verse
by Tinker
Rated: E · Book · Writing · #2152501
Inspired by challenges at Poet's Place Cafe, a forum designed to hone your writing skills.
#930959 added March 23, 2018 at 5:04pm
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Robert Frost, Sower - Write an Encomium / in Blank Verse
Robert Frost, Sower

Some forty years ago, I saw him stand
up next to J.F.K. and heard them call
him Poet Laureate. He read aloud
from shaking paper held in wrinkled hands.
I don't remember any words he spoke,
it was his gravel voice that stayed with me.
I had an inkling then I witnessed steel
and still I hear him now, the harness bells
and swinging birches, sounds connecting voice
and pen. He planted a seed in me that day,
a need to share this vibrant world in verse.
                              --- Judi Van Gorder

"Form of the week: Encomium"   Exercise 2-1-18
Blank Verse  

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