Has music gone from poetry? <br />Words and music, still agree? <br />Dance and rhythm, song and laughter, <br />Do they echo, now, hereafter..? <br /> <br />Has singing gone from poetry? <br />Words that sing a listened tune? <br />Lullaby and melody, <br />Old rhymes that sleepy mothers croon? <br /> <br />Has rhythm gone from poetry? <br />Quick as a dance-step, slow as a glide? <br />Laughing now; now weeping; now shouting with glee – <br />Dancing round you, singing, can’t catch me… <br /> <br />Has magic gone from poetry? <br />Spells that summon fairy Fates? <br />Incantations solemn spoken, <br />Heroes, giants, to danger woken? <br /> <br />Have light hearts gone from poetry? <br />Hearts that know the tears of life, <br />hearts that know the grief of strife, <br />yet sing and dance and laugh with glee? <br />Who loves, who loves not poetry?<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/has-music-gone-from-poetry/
