My Clumsy Words

My clumsy words, they are mine.
You may see them, and compare them 
To my predecessors---
Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, Blake
Eliot, Pound, Stevens, 
Dickenson, Poe, Longfellow, Whitman,
Spencer, Milton, Shakespeare, Chaucer,
The heights of Beowulf,
The depths of Yeats,
Coleridge's luxury or Ferguson's wit
Seamus Heaney or Wendell Berry's or Robert Frost's earthy tones.
But I write them, and they are mine.