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A Creative Interpretation

 

Temperamental Brilliance

 

 

A garden drifter;

A simple shifter,

Making stories dream, dreaming about;

Like a fallen leaf enlightened by the wind

Whisking and twirling off the ground,

In the sky but only for swirling sake.

 

An intellectual lifter;

Depresssion may flow thicker,

Contributing conceptions through haze;

Eccentric bursts and lonely thoughts

Give fuel to felt…

Knowledge to lectures… and passion to life.

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A poem giving tribute to Theodore Roethke. 
Contributed by Micah Yates.

Everything you every wanted to know about Theodore Reothke!