THE ROMANTICS

When words meant love
and heroic action was wise
no stoic chance of nature
bent satisfaction to their eyes,

Believing they were part
of a freely connected history
the art of Keats, Wordsworth
revolutionary Byron, Shelley,

From France's commune station
and impassion of Baudelaire
earth's filiation from Rimbaud
continues to birth our generation,

As Whitman embraced a venture
away from any Darwinian elite
emerging poet faces of evolution
from the galleys of the Beat.