Creative Progress
Around us, everything we see reveals
Progress, from youth to age, simplicity
To more complexity. Innocence feels
Growing experience, whilst clumsiness
Learns facile skills. These are progressions good
And natural, made by Creation’s rules.
Burns in you poets literary fire
To make improvements in your verbal tools;
Fight, to achieve those thought-commanding peaks
Unreached before,(along pathways untrod
By your precursors and contemporaries),
Through meaningful developments of style?.
For, if such vital evolutions you deny,
Your works will quickly stultify, wither and die!.
