The idea is to flood Facebook with poetry. If someone likes your poem, you assign them a poet... Then you post a poem by him/her and it goes on and on. Chathushka Rambukwella assigned me Alexander Pushkin. Heres his poem, The Poet (Translation) Until he hears Apollos call To make a hallowed sacrifice, A Poet lives in feeble thrall To peoples empty vanities; And silent is his sacred lyre, His soul partakes of chilly sleep, And of the worlds unworthy sons He is, perhaps, the very least. But once Divinitys command Approaches his exquisite ear, The poets soul awakens, poised, Just like an eagle stirred from sleep. All worldly pleasures leave him cold, From common talk he stays aloof, And will not lower his proud head Before the nations sacred cow. Untamed and brooding, he takes flight, Seething with sound and agitation, To reach a sea-swept, desert shore, A woodland wide and murmuring...
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:40:10 +0000
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