At the end of the month, I look at the long list of poems that would be so wonderful to post for discussion, and often sigh.
On Wednesday many poems dealing with Stone and Monuments were mentioned. Forgive me for including them, in hopes you understand there is not time/room to discuss everything.
The Museum of Stones by Carolyn Forché - 1950- https://poets.org/poem/museum-stones
Shelley's Ozymandias: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias
Nemerov's take: https://allpoetry.com/Ozymandias-II
The New Ozymandias by Kip Williams
I met a farer from a far-off strand
Who said, “Two giant feet of bronze, gone green,
In water sit, bedecked with broken chains
That show their maker well did understand
That bonds of former slavery, still seen,
Convey defeated servitude’s remains.
Near by, a broken torch lies, dead and dark
In grimy water’s tide that, fitful, passes,
And on the base, these words my eyes did mark:
‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
Yearning to breathe free.’ Here ends the poem,
The rest is eaten by the restless water.
Along the shore, starved, feral humans roam
Whose brandished weapons offer naught but slaughter.”
-- March 10, 2018
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