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Ritchie
Shakespeare

Imagine

A Greek tyrant
Wanting to recline

The empress of China

A maharajah wile
Inventing chess

A serf requesting
At a wedding
In the town
Near the church

An indigenous anywhere
In freer times
Asking for a harmony
‘Twixt the spirits of the sky
And the ground
Maybe the soil
A supplication for good growth

A lady of the Medici
Also in tyranny

Why not
The queen of heaven
Of the angels
Or God upon the first
Easy sabbath
That there be music
To accompany
The vibrations of creation

Please
Who can
And please
Who will be pleased
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C L Couch


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