Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TONGUELESS LINES, by PAT MERNAGH


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TONGUELESS LINES, by                    
First Line: Look at it now
Last Line: Look at it now!
Subject(s): Skulls


Look at it now
What once was I!
You'd scarcely think
This empty, naked thing
Once held the potency
To make words sing,
Kings clap.
Yet so it did.
The lauded lump
That chinked the vacant space
Behind these gutted orbs,
This fleshless face,
Once juggled words
More cunningly than you
Into neat rhyme!
This crumbled ear,
A brief and eager time,
Alertly leaned to praise
That made the ego strut; to din
That wreathed the head . . . ha!
(Pardon my lipless grin) . . .
The head . . .
Look at it now!





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