On Walt Whitman

On Walt Whitman
By Tatiana Pahlen

Walt Whitman's talent was higher than his gift
amassing the lexis to smear it through the page;
His self-proclaimed ingenuity claims the cutting-edge
among the shrewd and fools, the young and old;
He'd wander much too far
to capture and possess the newly budding souls of any creed and age
due to his swelled up diarrheic tongue.

For years he chewed on leaves of ripened grass
Lord knows, he might smoke it too;
Oh Glory thee who put a seed or two,
and sought the healthy sprouts, giving this man a buzz!