In Admiration Of The Poet Donne... Poem by Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr

Quintet Haiku with the employ-
ment of Traditional Haikus
Syllabic requirement.[FjR]


One Hundred Drafts Penned
Compulsion And Perfection
A Poet's Marriage

The Poet John Donne
Born in Sixteen Twenty-Five
His Mission...Holy

His Love Died Too Young
Entered a Seminary
Worked And Wrote For God

Ordained a Bishop
Preached And Penned 'bout Life And Death
By Faith... Through Poems

Providential Scribe
His Holy Sonnets Still Speak
That "Death Be Not Proud".


[FjR]MMXIX