Tuesday, January 18, 2005

With Day and Day

With day and day in the surrounded dark,
On the breasts of night's deep and softly breath;
Clouded mornings coming - icy in spark,
With gangrenous precipices hands of death.
All is too soft and dripping slowly down,
From the clouds in the loneness of the high;
To the earth of the shadow oily brown,
Tears are falling from their lorn briny cry.
The plants are nursed in the broken pieces,
With the goodness of cold dripping water;
Love comes to the offsprings for it freezes,
Muttering tones hollow to a mater.
To life and death - are some of the much same,
And both to the issues share their right claim.

2 Comments:

Blogger Eric Lemming said...

Wow. I LOVE your site! I'm trying to become more poetic and am teaching myself by reading other peoples work to find my style. You have alot of great works (not to mention alot of blogs lol) Are you a published poet? Please check out the blog im apart of called View of the Pretendor at http://make-the-best-of-it.blogspot.com. Maybe you can get some inspiration.

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Blogger Peter S. Quinn said...

Thanks! Yes, actually I am ;-) - See here 10 of my poem books, at Nospine.com: http://www.nospine.net/aboutauthor.asp?VID=2581319&AuthorNum=00221

However, I love the internet with all its many corners... Robert Lowell once wrote (in 'Harpo Marx'): " ...like Dante's movie, the great glistening wheel of life - the genius happy... a generic actor" (I don't know why I write this here, - my muse is out of control!? lol). A. Rimbaud said something like, be a visionary... I'd like to add: ...into the night, for the day is coming.

"Life should be lyrical, - of beauty and dark" Peter - funny me, funny you, funny world ;-)

P.S Thanks for your invitation ...

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