Sunday with Yeats (poem) by Linda Buskey LeBlanc on AuthorsDen
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Sunday with Yeats
 Snake Road Disaster Work Wireless Underneath Boston While on Vacation Cornucopia Chair by the Window Scent of the Ages The Wharf Window D-Day, Plus Sixty-Five While Picking Blueberries Morning Song U.Mass-Boston on a Rainy June Day, 2009
In the poetry book "On Trains"
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In 1967 wartime America, I read
poetry by Yeats I never found again
until Sunday in a Cambridge coffee shop
laughing with a friend, like a child
in "Among School Children".
I searched out the Complete Works
to remember...and discovered
more than I ever knew:
that we had been with him in the fire,
feared a slouching beast, mourned Parnell,
as if by design, a road leaving prints
that will not wash out
all the way to Byzantium, trodding
through muddy trails to rare mountain air.
Around the holidays last year, I too rediscovered Yeats...
I like this piece...great flow and rhythm, outstanding theme.