Hi Ann,
A couple of points on this one. I think it would be more successful if you
made the questions statements and rid yourself of the references to Dylan
Thomas and found your own words, as he's too stong a poet and his phrases
dominate your poem here.
bw
James
>From: "V. W." <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New Sub: When
>Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 13:20:14 EST
>
>Milleniums from now, when museums are full of the strange and unfathomable
>weapons of our past I wonder if the inhabitants of the new world will
>condemn
>us or be merely puzzled by our terminal stupidity.
>
>WHEN
>
>
>When, in future milleniums
>they come to sift the dark
>through our darkness
>
>how will they start
>interpreting the strange displays
>of self destructive art.
>
>How re invent the sound
>of instuments
>best left unfound
>
>that played
>while the world burned.
>
>And will they know how poets
>warned and raged
>against the dying of the light.
>
>Against that night
>where none went gentle.
>
>
>Ann Stockton
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