Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FORMULATION, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into which of the mind's moulds Last Line: Come in a form I shall not too much fear. Subject(s): Flowers; Soul; Vision | ||||||||
Into which of the mind's moulds Will vision flow, The divine formulation grow? Once a woman perceived a holy head Dropping its shining blood Like fish-scales, or like rain-drops from the eaves. Elsewhere it is a lotus-flower Opening from the self-encentred Buddha Composed for ever like a still dancer, And once in Lambeth a hidden grain of sand Held all the world that vision can command, The great eternity within a poet's mind. Grandiose archaic faces, Contours of former souls' experience Stand between my vision and what they saw, Therefore come as a bird within the mind, Or as a single leaf upon a tree of leaves Suddenly made shining by the sun, Or break like day upon a simple stone Or in a dazzle of sunlight upon water, Come as a jewelled moth, a budding flower Come in a form I shall not too much fear. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MERCY SEAT by NORMAN DUBIE TOO BRIGHT TO SEE by LINDA GREGG NORMAL LIGHT by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER LANDSCAPES (FOR CLEMENT R. WOOD) by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE VISION TEST by MONA VAN DUYN FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT by ELEANOR WILNER A MESSAGE TO MICHAEL by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE |
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