Thursday, November 20, 2008

A Perfect Poem (Epigram) (for my taste)

A Dust of Snow I write epigrams--highly concise, rhymed lines with a pithy and often surprising ending. Here is an example from Robert Frost that is my paradigm, a perfect poem, the standard to which I aspire:

The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.


Dust of Snow (1923)

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