provincial poets

this morning i read through the works of billy byrne
traced the words and music he had drawn
and after wondered as to what degree
his musings held in the rank halls of poetry
i scorned the traipsing metre and the mind
which brought it to the world i became
a defiler in the temple of the muse
now in broken spirit i start again
let the works of byrne shine thus
no greater and no less
than the darkness glistening in homer's verse
no more high or low
than keats' first pure clarion call
which whispered in the timbrels of its gleaming
even a savage has feeling
even the gods must fall