Poems Inspired by T. S. Eliot

Her laughter is as contagious as viral videos or memes, outrageously inflected with all manner of isms hysterical. Though never having witnessed a moose hiccupping amidst a fit of inverted sneezes, this might be the closest thing. And judging by the snorts, it appears her sense of propiety effortlessly aborts, but I'm guessing only those with low self esteem would throttle their own throated screams out of concern for what conservatives think. This gal must be their worst nightmare come true in spaghetti strapped evening attire. I wouldn't be surprised if either of those C cups flopped out...

A famous line, writ long before my time.
He’d be banned from Twitter, or worse
If he dared to post such verse
In public, in the shallow culture of our own time.

“Do I dare disturb the universe?”

Let us go then, you and I,
And make our escape from this world on-line
Back to a world inhabited by human-kind
Unafraid to say what we like.
No bits on a screen spewing words crass and mean.
Parchment will do.

Let us go then, you and I,
To a world fit for flesh and bone
Where reality means we may suffer alone ...

I am moved by the fancies that are curled
 Around these images and cling:
 The notion of some infinitely gentle
 Infinitely suffering thing ‘
                 
                         - T. S. Elliot

I

The heart can go to and fro
This is what I know of love, not beauty,
For I loved in the grittiest of moments,
Tattered and beaten, hands soiled.
Beauty knows not of its own shadow;
It is one with itself, it is an illusion,
How it aspires to what we already know.

II

Borne in calamity, faced with...