Ardentia Verba

Wow. Wise ghost. And a bracing read.

"Ardentia-Verba"- "glowing words", but can apply to poetry as well (maybe more). Went to several sites William, put some in history on my browser.

Loved the poem. Will come back to read again.

Stunning & Gallant! But I shall keep all the other glowing words to myself, for now, tucked between pages and posts I will surely turn over again & again!

xooxx damn I love your stuff!

breathtaking

So gorgeous. Sigh...

Powerful verse, Will. Perchance inspired by the poetry market blogger?

I enjoyed the gliding feel of the lines below. Your word choice is always so spot on. My 4yr old and I were talking about Shakespeare yesterday (I know you're more of a Marlowe guy, but hear me out...) and he asked, "How could he spell all of those words and keep the rhythm?" and my mind immediately danced to you and your superb mastery of language. Someone's brainiac child will be asking that of you, 400 years from now.

You must yell
from behind a
veil of silence.

I love this poem.

Relentless come the
waves of marauders:
who paper their minds
with accolades, pollute
their dreams with lucre,

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Oh my this is epic, and my favourite part!

I'm on that hill, jackal teeth bared, all too ready to slay -- and to slay this lot in particular:

[those who] know better than all
how much they long to
know better than all

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...though of course I'm only too delighted to shred the other marauders as well.

Alas, mostly I must content myself with using a keyboard rather than my canines and carnassials.

I saw this a few days ago, but have been running crazy at work and didn't have time to dig in.

It's a powerful poem: rings true, strikes at an emotion, you've expressed it with the effective image of a ghost.
The final stanza is a call to action.
Sometimes poetry can feel "undone", as though the reader is left to ponder the "after". Not the case here. It is done and the mic has been dropped. "slay them. leave them where they fall."

Oh yes. Very powerful.