OSU Poetry: Powers by Connor Kaplan

Sunday, May 19, 2013

With a glance of your eyes you could burn everything in sight.

With your strength you could lift a mountain with your pinky.

With your agility you could run off the face of the Earth.

With your mind you could bend space and time.

With your breath you could create a mighty typhoon.

With your skin you could survive a bullet to the heart.

But without our sun your nothing, just fiction.

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With a glance of your eyes you could plunder all the wealth of songs struck from poets’ harps, fair woman!

But for their praises you have no ear; therefore do I come to praise you.

You could humble at your feet the proudest heads of all the world;

But it is your loved ones, unknown to fame, whom you choose to worship; therefore I worship you.

Your perfect arms would add glory to kingly splendor with their touch;

But you use them to sweep away the dust, and to make clean your humble home; therefore I am filled with awe.

Source: Poetry (June 1913).

OSU Poetry