Barbaric Yawp
His “poetry” is not so much a thing
Of barbarism as it is bad Greek
Or Roman oratory. In its ring
It has the sound of bombast. No, not sleek,
But more like overstated prose tricked out
As verse on pages. Rhetoric high-flown
Quite like a blimp that goes on fire, a pout
In silent movies. He is sounds, a groan
That comes from King James Version psalms opposed
To versey-ness like Emerson’s rhymed lines.
It sounds like gushingness and less composed.
It sounds like rawest ore just heaped from mines.
..It isn’t quite as bad as blurting out
….With pebbles on your tongue, but yet a shout.
~ Phillip Whidden
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2021 | AE, DE, EM, PR, RA, WA, WH |