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Ode unto a Grecian Boxer
Why pour praise upon a vessel?
That cannot return in kind
and in your heart does it nestle
The sense you receive
For in static but not in situ
are such visions enticed from within
Captured in communal clay
much to your divine oriented chagrin
purposed the hoi polloi.
Too much is read with excess,
Enconjured atmosphere
Caused by misled missing impress
of bygone frivolities.
Waxing overly lyrical in lament
to unfeeling pottery
innovative and asinine as cement.
For thy fortune favours form
prioritizing the loftiest perfection
such restricted oligarchy
stymied throughout the refined collection.
That in turn can confound
as though unto the famed Gordian knot
complex in connotation
frustrating communication thought.
Yet similar appreciation
must assuredly proffered unto artistic
with sculptured contradictions
nonetheless inherently Hellenistic
that espouses the natural
extolling the virtues of flaw
enough to emphasize
exhibiting the human awe.
That cannot return in kind
and in your heart does it nestle
The sense you receive
For in static but not in situ
are such visions enticed from within
Captured in communal clay
much to your divine oriented chagrin
purposed the hoi polloi.
Too much is read with excess,
Enconjured atmosphere
Caused by misled missing impress
of bygone frivolities.
Waxing overly lyrical in lament
to unfeeling pottery
innovative and asinine as cement.
For thy fortune favours form
prioritizing the loftiest perfection
such restricted oligarchy
stymied throughout the refined collection.
That in turn can confound
as though unto the famed Gordian knot
complex in connotation
frustrating communication thought.
Yet similar appreciation
must assuredly proffered unto artistic
with sculptured contradictions
nonetheless inherently Hellenistic
that espouses the natural
extolling the virtues of flaw
enough to emphasize
exhibiting the human awe.
Published 5th Apr 2018
| Edited 6th Apr 2018
Author's Note
Entry for day 5 of the NaPo competition based on the prompt of "Poetry : Write a poem "about a poem about a poem". For example, take a look at DUP member PoetsRevenge's 'Dark Fruit', inspired by two of Sylvia Plath's poems: 'Maenad' & 'Mirror'." With that in mind is a response/critique/jab at Keats' 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' which is undoubtedly an incredible poem but not the most direct or easy to read poem! Episode 2 of the BBC programme 'Civilisations', about the relationship between art and civilisation, featured the 'Boxer at Rest' (Terme Boxer/ Boxer of the Quirinal) and although a Hellenistic sculpture it features an aged boxer's body with wounds marked out in lighter bronze, rather than the quintessential youthful flawless form.
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