Ode To Poetry

• Bruce Ru, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2022

O Poetry! My fair lady!
You dress yourself in a million ways.
Epics, haikus, sonnets and nonets,
You silence the nightingale with every phrase.
O Poetry! My dainty lady!
You dance with such elegant feet and form.
With your changing meter, tempo and beat,
You take me on journeys full of rhythm.
O Poetry! My brave lady!
How you untangle the wire I call life.
You’ll always guide me through the secret lands
Of good and evil, of love and strife.
O Poetry! My wise lady!
You make lifeless words spring alive!
From an ode to an elegy,
You shall forever thrive!