Ode to SportAmazing! And stranger than any of my weak satires. I have recently discovered (thanks to Boynton) that there were artistic competitions in the Olympics of the early 20th century, called the Pentathlon of the Muses. The good Baron won the gold medal (under an assumed name) for his efforts in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. For this very poem.
O sport, pleasure of the Gods, essence of life
O sport, you are Beauty!
You are the architect of this edifice, the human body
O sport, you are Justice!
O sport, you are Boldness!
O sport, you are Honour!
O sport, you are Fertility!
O sport, you are Progress!
O sport, you are Peace!
RUST AND RAIN AND TIME
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One has to carefully pick and choose among the verses of Issa to find the
good ones. Even then, one often has the feeling that the good ones were
accidents...
4 hours ago
3 comments:
oh man.....
O steroids, accelerator of the swift!
O steroids, enlarger of the strong!
O steroids, you are Progress!
Tom, you get the silver!
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