User blog:Lord Jeremiah Garland/Jeremiah's Poetry Corner

Alright, this really has nothing to do with POTCO, but that's what blogs are for, right?

The purpose of this page is to convince people poetry is a beautiful art, and not something to think boring. This was inspired by Samantha Decksteel's page, "What is Love & Hate?" as well as Jack Pistol's new page, "The Caribbean Wisemen". Please, no rude comments, as this is not a place to bring arguments.

A new poem will be chosen every few days. If you have a poem you wish to present, request it in comments, and it may just make it up here!

This first poem is credited to Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia. It is called "St. Stephen", perhaps best known for it was adapted into a song, and recorded by the Grateful Dead as the opening track on their 1969 album, Aoxomoxoa.

St. Stephen with a rose

In and out of the garden he goes

Country garden in the wind and the rain

Wherever he goes, the people all complain

Stephen prospered in his time

Well he may and he may decline

''Did it matter? Does it now?''

Stephen would answer if he only knew how

Wishing well with the golden bell

Bucket hanging clear to Hell

Hell halfway-twixt now and then

Stephen'd fill it up and lower down, and lower down again

''Lady finger dipped in moonlight, writing "What for?" across the morning sky''

Sunlight splatters, dawn with answers, darkness shrugs and bids the day goodbye

Speeding arrow, sharp and narrow, what a lot of fleeting matters you have spurned

Several seasons, with their treasons, wrap the babe in scarlet colours call it your own

Did he doubt or did he try?

Answers aplenty in the bye and bye

Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills

One man gathers what another man spills

St. Stephen will remain

All he's lost he shall regain

Seashore washed by the suds and foam

Been here so long, he's got to calling it home

Fortune comes a crawlin', calliope woman

Spinning that curious sense of your own

''Can you answer? Yes I can''

But what would be the answer to the answer man?

Also, here is the recorded song by the Grateful Dead (live at Fillmore West, c. 1969):

thumb|377px|left