If Not Truth

September 25, 2019

What good is a poem,

if not to incent or inspire

Just flowering verbiage,

growing out of the mire

What comes from our verse,

if not truth yet released

Each word to enlighten

—in beacons of speech

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)

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