Green Street Poem by Frank Avon

Green Street



1.

He required of her
pity
and shared with her
love
and, if lifelong protectiveness
be mercy
and patience, peace,
their marriage
was divine:
'in lovely copulation
bliss on bliss'

2.

Engravings on their walls,
drawings and watercolors,
Catherine,
his younger brother Robert,
singing his songs
over green tea and lemonade
with the Bluestocking Mrs. Mathews,
a nondescript volume
called POETICAL SKETCHES,
conversation and confrontation
('no time for seeming
and little bits of compliment') ,
the platonism of Thos. Taylor,
'happy Islanders' of the moon
in a satiric burlesque:

infinite London,
seen only within the mundane
London town.

Monday, July 13, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: individualism,marriage,writing,youth
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Based on Chapter 8 of Peter Ackroyd's biography of William Blake, 'My Eyes are always upon thee.' The last three lines are adapted from a quote by Ackroyd, p.92.
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