The Perfect Poem Should Flow like Wind

Music: Prelude #4 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2
By J.S. Bach. Sequenced by Yo Tomita.

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The perfect poem should flow like wind High up among cold themes; It should be musical, and sing Seductively of dreams. It should be passion frozen, so Solidified it burns; Thoughts crystalline and shimmering Out and in by turns. Of all poems it should be required Each word be clear and true; A line that few can comprehend Should not obscure the view. Yet … first letters may speak, too.