Hi Ann,
I'm not sure I can go with this one...
It asks an unanswerable question - but poems can ask questions as well as
raise qustions they don't need to ask so openly - so that's not it!
I guess it's the way you use the Very Famous Lines of Dylan Thomas - very
blatently.
But there's so many poems appearing right now I haven't been able to think
more closely than what I'm saying here and now... except it starts OK - but
when Dylan Thomas buts in he seems to take over.
Bob






>From: "V. W." <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>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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