TheBanyanTree: Tribute to William

[smack58 at nycap.rr.com]

Thank you!  I wish you all could read some of his stuff.  It is so beautiful!

Sharon
---- Woofie <woofie at woofess.com> wrote: 
Absolutely beautiful!!:)

w:)
On 9/02/2011 10:02 PM, smack58 at nycap.rr.com wrote:
> This is a tribute to a poet I met on a poetry site that I belong to.  We have never met, but his poetry is like fine wine and beautiful music all rolled into one.  I have much admiration for him.
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> Tribute to William
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> One day, not too long ago,
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> I sat in front of my darkened computer screen
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> contemplating my next poem.
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> When the light suddenly came on.
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> I was surprised to see
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> an orange nebulous circle of sorts
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> who beckoned to me.
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> I withdrew and imagined myself quite insane,
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> but a gentle hand reached out touching my arm.
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> Drawing me into that cyber world
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> I knew so little about.
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> We traveled for a very short distance really…
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> or maybe it was a long distance and I just couldn’t tell…
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> to a platform, of all things…of poetry.
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> There I saw many round balls
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> swaying with rhymes and rhythms
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> floating through the space,
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> all of various colors.
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> Magenta, meadow greens,
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> ocean blues, baby pinks,
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> black of nights and earthy browns.
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> I wondered where my orange came in.
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> I joined the circle
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> and all were chatting enthusiastically
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> when to our barest left corner
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> we saw sitting a circle of many colors,
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> glistening like fine crystal.
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> Its rainbow hues drew us
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> and as we closed in
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> we heard the most beautiful words.
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> They came forth and gently
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> And deposited themselves on our souls
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> and sifted through our hands
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> and our ears
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> (did we have souls and ears?).
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> Nevertheless, we stayed
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> determined to listen
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> to every last word he had to share.
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> This is how I came to know
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> a poet named William.
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