Since David the Psalmist and Shakespeare and Frost...

 PAD Challenge Day 4: Write a 'since' poem

Since David the Psalmist,

And Shakespeare and Frost

Since Marvell and Milton and Clare

Since Browning and Dickinson, Kipling and Yeats

Poetry spills everywhere

Since Coleridge, Tennyson,

Shelley, Swift, Blake

Since Byron, Longfellow and Guest

Wordsworth and Whitman and Herrick and Donne

Poetry speaks the heart best

Since Whittier, Rossetti,

Wyatt, Watts, Poe

Raleigh, Patmore, Phillips and Wilde

Lawrence and Hardy and Drummond and Burns

Poetry is heaven’s Child

Since Collins and Cowper,

Fitzgerald, Bronte

Since Lincoln, Kilmer and Riley

We touch the soul

Though time's centuries roll

Of God-kisses in poetry 

...to name just a few!

© Janet Martin