Poem-A-Day: Lines on a Skull by Ravi Shankar

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Lines on a Skull by Ravi Shankar   (Haiku Erasure of Lord Byron's "Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull")   Start spirit; behold the skull. A living head loved earth. My bones resign the worm, lips to hold sparkling grape's slimy circle, shape of reptile's food. Where wit shone of shine, when our brains are substitute, like me, with the dead, life's little, our heads sad. Redeemed and wasting clay this chance. Be of use. This is the first publication of "Lines on a Skull". Copyright © 2012 by Ravi Shankar. Used with the permission of the author. About this poem: Each of Shankar's stanzas takes the form of a haiku. For information about this form, visit: www.poets.org/haiku. Poetry by Shankar  Intrumentality  October 29, 2012 Ravi Shankar is the author of Instrumentality (Cherry Grove, 2004) and is the founding editor of Drunken Boat.  Also by Shankar Ants Crossings Related Poems After Catullus by Lisa Jarnot After John Donne's "To his Mistress Going to Bed" by Lisa Russ Spaar After Reading "Antony and Cleopatra" by Robert Louis Stevenson Poem-A-Day started as a National Poetry Month program in 2006, delivering daily poems from newly-published poetry titles.   Due to popular demand, Poem-A-Day became a year-round program in 2010, featuring original, never-before-published poems by contemporary poets on weekdays, and classic poems on weekends.   Browse the Poem-A-Day archive for selections since 2010.  Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem In Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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