Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ETCHING, by ULYSSES GOLDBERG


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ETCHING, by                    
First Line: Far away over the river
Last Line: Shivering. ...
Subject(s): Etching; Nature; Trees


Far away over the river
Mists of smoke spiral slowly.
A curved white marble bench
Glistens in the sunlight,
Reminiscent of lost Hellenic races.
Bowed over the white marble
A gnarled old tree supplicates me,
Grotesquely begging with his thousand twisted fingers.
Near-by, a wild sapling whirls madly,
Flinging his arms in a weird delirium.
Seven shrunken trees stand watch,
Shivering. ...





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