Sunday, June 3, 2018

101 Poems, Number 43


Favorite Poems Throughout My Life


43: “Oil and Blood,” 1928, by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

A vampire poem! And by Yeats!
Who’d think that Stoker, Yeats were mates?
A student* told me of this work—
I memorized it (mustn’t shirk!).

And now I think of Yeats and blood—
And Dracula (oh, such a stud!)—
And smile each time I think of this—
A poem—like a Cullen kiss!

*Meg Martinez, Western Reserve Academy, Class of 2011


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