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"Out There"
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"Out There" |
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sullivanthepoet.com Member
since 2007-06-28
Posts 154Devon, England |
What gross deceit to dream life's well should favour but one cup, or 'magine for a heart beat's width thence only man might sup! What pomp decrees that chalice sole should from its bounty slake, one thirst for form, for thought, for life, whilst other lips forsake? A thousand times ten thousand lights bejewel a darkling sky, each spark a brightly shining grail, think all but one lay dry? When through that sequinned curtain lay, had we but wit to part, Ten thousand times ten million more, bright veils within its heart. And with each beat, each pulse, that heart, another star gives birth, Oh! How we microbes in life's blood do overweight our worth! When savage eyes we dare to lift; to starward turn our face, What fevered soul dare contemplate one tread above our place? Above the worms and angels waits, in unfamiliar guise, Celestial kinship for mankind had we the heart to rise. For life will not by rock be stemmed, nor fear congel its blood, It gives it bounty not by sip, nor trickle, but by flood! A river, rolling, surging, strong, its spray the mists of time, whipped hard by interstellar winds to living, fecund rime. and where it whets, with life it coats, cold unforgiving stone, with living form, in alien flesh, to garb some alien bone. Tho' we, still damp, dare yet presume, thigh deep in shifting sand, of all the shore's life's sea has wet, it moisten but Man's hand? Drink deeply worm, aye fill your cup, bear not a droplet's loss, For 'ere you savage cease to be; You've ageless wastes to cross...! www.sullivanthepoet.com "Live free in the world and owe allegiance to no man" |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
Shades of the old English poets. Very well done. I shall come back to it, to peruse it well. joyce |
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sullivanthepoet.com Member
since 2007-06-28
Posts 154Devon, England |
Thank you... High praise indeed! Glad you enjoyed it - MIke  |
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