When I Read The Great Poets Poem by Bill Grace

When I Read The Great Poets



When I read the great poets
I do not forgive myself for being mediocre
I marvel at their great gifts of real, sometimes their rhythm and rhyme
Sometimes their capacity for play
Never do I want to pay the price of their greatness.
I will keep my mediocrity
Struggle on toddler feet towards forgiveness
For those who only had time for the great.

Bill Grace
Friday, October 28, 2011
Topic(s) of this poem: forgiveness,poets,rhyme,sometimes,toddler
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