samedi 7 novembre 2015

Just lost when I was saved




Just lost, when I was saved !
Just felt the world go by !
Just girt me for the onset with Eternity,
When breath blew back,
And on the other side
I heard recede the disappointed tide !
Therefore, as One returned, I feel,
Odd secrets of the line to tell !
Some sailor, skirting foreign shores-
Some pale Reporter, from the awful doors
Before the Seal !
Next time, to stay
Next time, the things to see
By ear unheard-
Unscrutinized by eyes –
Next time to tarry
While the Ages steal-
Slow tramp the Centuries,
And the Cycles wheel ! (132)


lundi 19 octobre 2015

will there really be a morning?



















Will there really be a « morning » ?
Is there such a thing as « Day » ?
Could I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they ?
Has it feet like Water lilies ?
Has it feathers like a bird ?
It is brought from famous countries
Of which I have never heard ?
Oh some Scholar ! Oh some Sailor !
Oh some Wise Man from the skies !
Please to tell a litlle pilgrim
Where the place called morning lies !
(148)

dimanche 13 septembre 2015

an ignorance a sunset



An ignorance a Sunset
Confer opon the Eye –
Of Territory – Color –
Circumference – Decay –
It’s Amber Revelation
Exhilirate – Debase –
Omnipotence’ inspection
Of Our inferior face –
And when the solemn features
Confirm – in Victory –
We start – as if detected
In Immortality (669)

                  

vendredi 13 mars 2015

this is the land the sunset washes


This is the land the sunset washes,
Theses are the banks of the Yellow sea;
Where it rose, or whither it rushes,
These are the western mystery!
Night after night her purple traffic
Strews the landing with opal bales
Merchantmen poise upon horizons,
Dip, and vanish like orioles 
(297)


dimanche 11 janvier 2015

One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted



















One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted
   
One need not be a House -   
The Brain has Corridors - surpassing   
Material Place.   
 
Far safer, of a midnight meeting            
External Ghost   
Than it's interior confronting - 
That cooler Host -   
 
Far safer, through an Abbey gallop,   
The Stones a'chase -           
Than unarmed, one’s a'self encounter -  
In lonesome Place -   
 
Ourself behinf ourself, concealed -   
Should startle most -   
Assassin hid in our Apartement           
Be Horror’s least -   
 
The Body - borrows a Revolver -   
He bolts the Door -   
O’erlooking a superior spectre -  
Or More
(407)