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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POINT LOMA SONNETS: 4. SILENCES, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON
First Line: There are long silences where lost winds blow
Last Line: Blown to the sea; and as familiar.
Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Silence
First Line: There are long silences where lost winds blow
Last Line: Blown to the sea; and as familiar.
Subject(s): Point Loma, California; Silence
There are long silences where lost winds blow
Upon these Loma altars of the sun;
And when small winds with seafaring are done,
There are deep paths the feet of evening know.
The sudden stars of evening on tiptoe
As if the wistful dreams of Time had run
Into the night forever, one by one,
Through Loma's lonely violet canyons go.
Past Pio Pico swift ships lift and glide
Into our channel, into port; or far
Inexorably drawn down that old tide
Where Orient stillnesses of temples are
As subtile as sage incense; and as wide
Blown to the sea; and as familiar.
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