Half a Thousand Years from Now
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“The harp that once through Tara’s halls”
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Suppose a football striker won a fee
For poetry. Would teammates rush to hug
Him, crushing chest to sweaty chest. Would he
Be lauded in the tv moment’s fug
Of clammy perspiration on the field?
Suppose a university sent out
A payment for his sonnet. Would this yield
A roar from football fans, a Guinness shout?
Suppose that he received a payment for
A villanelle a little magazine
Had published. Would that be as good a score
As one clear kick in goal by millions seen?
..And when 500 years have passed and one
….Page holds the verse, who’d think how he had run?
~ Phillip Whidden
