Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN THE KEY OF BLUE, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD


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IN THE KEY OF BLUE, by                    
First Line: I have a field of flax, blue-blooming
Last Line: Blown across a misty salt sea.
Subject(s): Flax


I have a field of flax, blue-blooming.
The fiber is tense and tough.
From it may God make blue garments
For the clear joy of Him,
For the grave glory of Him.

Like that blue there is no other --
Sturdy. caressing, unbearable perfect,
Not hiding,
Nor revealing,
Merely being.
It is not one blue,
But three:
One quite somber,
One quite glad,
One quite full of wistfulness.
Yet they agree in one.

You, Beloved,
You are a field of flax, blue-blooming.
The fiber is tense and tough.
From it may God make blue garments
For the clear joy of Him,
For the grave glory of Him.

A VOICE

It is too dark to see
The hard, white, poplar-bordered road
Or the soft warm lake beyond one poplar row.
But your voice comes from the dark, and I see
A dull-blue woven thing,
Full of the smell of blue roses
Blown across a misty salt sea.





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