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The New Year's Resolutions of a Growing Poet
by James Shammas (Age: 44)
copyright 12-04-2005


Age Rating: 10 to 127

 
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
-- Wallace Stevens

Call me weird, call me strange, but this year
I will gaze at Duchamp's ready-mades
And the targets and flags of Jasper Johns.

I will think in a suit like Wallace Stevens,
Of 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,'
And of the jar he placed in Tennessee.

Call me weird, call me strange, but this year
I will lie with Proust in a cork-lined room,
Find what he hid in his hawthorns in bloom.

I will sit with Joyce and sip some tea,
Read 'Finnegans Wake' with its 'tip, tip, tip,'
Watch a 'man in the macintosh' stare back at me.

Call me weird, call me strange, but I will see
With a few pairs of eyes, even Ahab's,
Searching and searching for the whitest in white.

And sipping some tea after rest by the sea,
I will cling like Rilke to the cliffs of Duino,
Terrified and free with his angels and elegies.

Call me weird, call me strange, but this year
I will walk with Whitman on the winter solstice,
Singing
With Margo and John, munching macaroons.




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12-07-2005 Anthony Lane Stahlhut    

The greatest adventures that we can take are adventures in the mind. Books take us to places we would only dream of. Authors write of things that we long to see, but never would if left to ourselves. Your write is a really nice one and thank you for talking about so many fine authors
12-05-2005 Leeann Monat    

New Year's resolutions are the hardest things to even think about, let alone write a poem on! The varied people you used (some I have heard of and others not) create an image in my head of a man just sitting ona porch one minute and the next minute conquering the world. But in the end, all he wanted was to be close to his friends sharing good times.
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