When Songs Of…

When Songs of Rhyme Are Sung, Deep and Full-Throated

“Les beaux esprits se rencontrent”—François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Age of Enlightenment French philosopher

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When songs of rhyme are sung, deep and full-throated,

     Poesy joyful and gay do often spring;

but songs sung happily hide a secret coded

     within a bard's concealed, inward being.

What hidden germ can masquerade as his art?

     When the mind envisions poetry, profound

phrases of love pouring from out of the heart's

     imagination may surprise and astound!

A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside

     an enigma: but perhaps there is a key?

Encrypted, and then planted far and wide,

     in lines apparent is his mind's bel esprit.

Beautiful spirits ever meet—and find

in each other the gift of a great mind.

By Ngoc Nguyen

From: United States