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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

"Infinity" is a marvellous poem, Mike. I consider it among the best you have written, and you have written a lot! I have no doubt that the Muses were close by when you were writing this.

Infinity

by Michael R. Burch

Have you tasted the bitterness of tears of despair?

Have you watched the sun sink through such pale, balmless air

that your heart sought its shell like a crab on a beach,

then scuttled inside to be safe, out of reach?

Might I lift you tonight from earth’s wreckage and damage

on these waves gently rising to pay the moon homage?

Or better, perhaps, let me say that I, too,

have dreamed of infinity ... windswept and blue.

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agnusde2017's avatar

I remain fond of Hesiod's invocation of the Muses at the beginning of the Theogony, and his acknowledgement thar his song of the gods came from them. I also am fond of the ancient tales of the Muses' justice against such entities as Thamyris and the Pierides.

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