The New Elegy*
Keep your own words to a minimum, but make your voice clear.
Integrate lines—whole stanzas even—from the departed poet.
To truly honor the departed poet their lines should sing brightest.
Still, this is your poem now, your world now, so make it your own.
*Update: October 6th, 2014
It occurred to me after the fact that I failed to make clear thi…
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