I Didn’t Intend to End This with a Quote from Jaroslav Pelikan | Daniel Klawitter

Lately, I’ve grown tired
of the way I write…
weary of the bells that jingle
on a hell-bent sleigh ride
of black scribble
across the white snowfall
of the page.
I wince as Mother Goose
slams one door after another
in closure.
But I like it too:
The comfort of order.
No art without the discipline
of a well-watched border.
Transgression has become so common
as to become commonplace.
Use a rhymed couplet
and many editors are unforgiving.
But remember:
Tradition is the living faith of the dead–
traditionalism: the dead faith of the living.
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