R.I.P. EDMUND WALLER
March 3, 1606-October
21, 1687
He managed to survive by
selling out
His co-conspirators. Never
devout,
A shifty man whom some
would call a crawler
Was the sly survivor
Edmund Waller.
Published
originally in Per Contra Spring
2009 Light Verse Supplement at www.percontra.net/14lightverseentry.htm.
R.I.P. JAMES MERRILL
March 3, 1926 – 1995
When he was young James
Merrill sang
Until the Muses’ rafters
rang,
But later on he stayed in
touch
With phantoms, spirits,
ghosts and such.
Visions
and Revisions of American Poetry, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, UArkansasPress 1986. Paperback, $12.95. 1986 Melville Cane Award of the
Poetry Society of America. ORDER FROM AMAZON


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