Tag: secular
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Guest
For hours the rain has been drumming and drumming on my welcome mat. If I could I’d gladly invite it in. For more than any woman or man it is welcome.
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Paris, Prince of Troy
You may have Achilles whose mouth frothed more than the river he fought. You are welcome to Ajax with his towering shield and skull full of rocks. I even grant you Hector who in the name of Troy left his son fatherless. Only leave me Paris – effete, peak-capped bowman Paris – who threw away…
Thomas R. Keith Poetry 