Poetry and that's without quote marks <br />poetry is the place for the big things <br />and long may it be <br />but that would be an inappropriate dialling tone right now; <br />quiet sincere OK? <br /> <br />You <br />regard the world with <br />affection <br />it's the first time I used that word in a poem <br />and meant it. <br /> <br />Affection. <br /> <br />I hear the angels murmuring it among themselves.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-an-almost-unknown-poet-as-of-now/
