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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LUCIA TRENT, by RAPHAELITA LOPEZ
First Line: You are a poet centuries to come
Last Line: Your selfless life, your shared-with-many crumb!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: You are a poet centuries to come
Last Line: Your selfless life, your shared-with-many crumb!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
You are a poet centuries to come
Will praise when studying our fearful fix.
They'll call us "kin to archeopteryx" --
That scaly bird, of song most starkly dumb,
Who climbed but could not fly from out the scum
Yet was of song and flight progenitrix.
But you seem free both sides the River Styx
As if you came from out Millennium.
"Though words have changed, she wrote our thoughts," they'll tell,
"This early prophetess of ways we've gone.
How did she know the truths we've yet to plumb?
Oh, how her age must have loved her, dined her well!"
. . . Ah, could they see the apron you have on,
Your selfless life, your shared-with-many crumb!
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