William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman have alliterative names

For Norman Nicholson  and Stevie Smith  you may say the same

Sassoon with his Siegfried and Porter with his Peter

Were destined to have mastery of rhythm, form and meter

 

Marvell at the metaphysical, let Pope raise you higher

But the best poet’s name is Benjamin Zepheniah

 

Some poets’ names Onomatopoeically enthral

Muldoon is a wave beat off the coast of Donegal

Heaney has a sway of bog and deep earthy dark

There is a staccato peacock strut to John Cooper Clarke

 

Robert Frost has a clarity any wordsmith would desire

But the best poet’s name is Benjamin Zepheniah

 

It illuminates the darkness

With its burning comet trail

A symphony in seven syllables, a golden holy grail

The philosophy and phrases of a Rasta prophesier

 

Benjamin Obadiah

Iqbal Zepheniah

 

(A tribute to the great man, picture by David Morris via Wikimedia Commons)

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