Rasselas

“To a poet nothing can be useless.” – Samuel Johnson (1709-1784).

Call me Imlac. 
Watch me examine, 
The species and mountains 
That range over Earth. 

 
New combinations of 
of images ancient 
Turn and accumulate 
Spewed forth from a hole. 
 

Forest tree and valley flower 
crag and palace 
rivulet maze and 
Summer’s cloud 
Beautiful dreadful 
Awfully vast and 
Elegantly small 
Garden plants 
Animals of the wood 
minerals of the earth 
Asteroid and Meteor 
Sprite, Despondence 
Right and Wrong.