On a Modern “Poem”
The thoughts are fresh, the images are good;
the style is clean, the tone both wise and terse;
the whole thing would be memorable, it would…
if only it had been expressed in verse.
Anglo-Danish by birth but Bahamian by upbringing, Robin Helweg-Larsen was educated in Jamaica and England. He has lived and worked in the Bahamas (bank clerk), Denmark (factories and janitorial), Canada (prison guard, bookstore owner), Australia (restaurant work), USA (developing and teaching business simulations). He blogs at formalverse.com.