Verses to my Model Writers

 Verses to my Model Writers

By Abe V Rotor

1. To Jose Rizal:

Your enemies tried to silence you,
and curtailed your freedom;
the lamp flickers to its last ray at dawn
to seal your martyrdom.

2. To Aesop:
Ah! Animals talk louder than men
though in screech, crow and bleat;
yet by moral and sanity, speak
not the language on the street.






3. To Ernest Hemingway:

You seem as brave as the old man
in your great masterpiece;
the soldier, the hunter, the dreamer -
yet wanting a life of peace.


4. To Charles Darwin:
You did not give up to your critics,
who only prayed and preached;
Around the world you witnessed,
Change by random and fit.

5. To Lola Basiang (penname of Severino Reyes)
You touched a million-and-one lives,
around campfires in their prime;
like Grimm and Anderson and Homer,
storytellers of all time.

6. To Boris Pasternak
Zhivago, to the end walked away alone,
from love neither in winter nor fallow;
what romance away from the war zone
wrapped him in doubt and sorrow.

7. To Mark Twain 

I am a boy forever, Tom or Huck,
down the Mississippi loafing;
and let the world go on sans care
what grownups are missing.

8. To Robert Louis Stevenson
"Kidnapped" made a boy into a man
too soon to faced a cruel world;
learning quickly the art of war
deceit and conceit, gun and sword.

9. To Oscar Wilde 

You're a creator of characters and events,
in novels, stories, and plays
children and adults alike on the armchair
live in those times and places.

10. To Arthur Conan Doyle
"Sherlock Holmes" lives to this day,
idol of any detective;
"The Lost World" remains of the past,
is back in our midst to live. ~