to he who owed a poem of gratitude
to those masters of old an ode
a debt to their platitudes
a tribute for those

whose wisdom creative spirit
their modernity in an old time
period reached to me in this
21st century

I speak of well known
geniuses
the Poe the Cummings
Whitman

Bryant Plath and
Emily
whose loneliness
is an apostrophe

and those who cast words
into the ether
heartfelt little
heard

I touch my ear
to that
ground

decipher faint trembles
of earth
******* delights
seldom heard

I sigh....