Today

Grant me but
this
summer’s day

and you can
keap
the age

give me meads
aflame
with light

I will
not
crave a wage

*

Give me
muse
that succors me

I’d
spurn
your gilded purse

were you to
seize my
werewithal

I would not
be
averse

*

Winter’s woes
now barely
fled

will return
soon
some day

I care not
for their
coming dread

if I but
revel
in today

*

If my muse
were jocund
gay

as this
torrid
summer’s day

I would fain
rejoice

and this
meadow

would be
ringing
with

her spirit
and
my voice

 
[©R.Kanth 2023]

Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (A Novel), A Day in the Life (Novel), Expiations (Verse), and Farewell to Modernism (Political Economy Tract).