"Poem for a dead poet", de Roger McGough

Poem for a dead poet

He was a poet he was.
A proper poet.
He said things
that made you think
and said them nicely.

He saw things
that you or I
could never see
and saw them clearly.
He had a way
with language.
Images flocked around
him like birds.

St Francis, he was,
of the words. Words?
Why he could almost make 'em talk.

Roger McGough

(O quadro intitula-se The death of Chatterton e foi pintado em 1856 por Henry Wallis. O poeta morto do poema de McGough não é Chatterton, mas John Berryman. No entanto, a beleza da pintura e a coerência temática justificam a sua afixação neste post.)