Wednesday, March 07, 2007

With Respects To Wm Wordsworth (A Work in Progress)

"The World is too much with us"
Truer now than then
we scramble for purchase, footing
like frightened ants and busy men

"The World is too much with us"
it's never left my side
a constant nuisance, ever-present
as inexorable as a tide

"The World is too much with us"
I'd like to leave awhile
to let my thoughts collect themselves
and gather life more fertile

"The World is too much with us"
Wm Wordsworth once did say
I think the man ahead of his time
his words haunt me still today.

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