On the cover <br />of those old black hymnbooks <br />in those old dark churches <br />you can just about read <br />'Hymns Ancient and Modern' <br /> <br />As time goes by, <br />'ancient' gets a longer and longer history <br />and curiously so too <br />does 'modern'<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-modern-poetry/
