Sunday, August 1, 2021

Enter Orlando - or you - with a Paper - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Enter Orlando – or you - with a Paper

 

                    …these trees shall be my books

And in their barks my thoughts I’ll character

 

-Orlando, As You Like It, III.ii.5-6

 

To write a poem and send it to the world

Is not unlike leaving it in a tree

For Rosalind, your Rosalind, to find

(Even at the risk of being scorned as an acorn)

 

Putting it out there can be dangerous

Art cannot be art unless it is shared

And Rosalind, your Rosalind, might not like it

(And then there’s that thing about a fallen acorn)

 

Oh, take the risk: for Rosalind, your Rosalind

Probably won’t conclude that you’re an acorn

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