[lit-ideas] Re: Prince Otsu before his execution
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:21:41 -0800
Thanks Robert . . . & John & Mike for commenting upon an earlier poem.
Lawrence
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Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:53 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Prince Otsu before his execution
The whole poem is excellent, Lawrence, but this last stanza is superb
—Robert.
Prince Otsu experienced fleeting
Glimpses of what he would miss.
Alas, it wouldn’t have been as he
Imagined even if his executioners
Never Arrived and even if he lived to eighty.
He would merely sit by a fire and fail to recall
Much of whatever it turned out to have been.
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'...saw fleeting glimpses...,' maybe, but who's counting?
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