Ode to the Classics

Knowing their names are not forgotten

            know they were heroes or enemies to some

Let me speak more names

Let me name Borges rhyming with she says

Let the name Bly still be alive

Jeni Couzyn, Barbara Riddle

Lengthening a list that’s left off rhapsodes always left off

So many singers unnamed

Even Homer

Now statues fall and streets are renamed

Let me say Baldwin

Let me say King

Those with passion for speaking the truth

Let

she says

be spoken more

Let Helen tell tales from her own store.

Dick Russell © July, 2020