Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE INVISIBLE SPECTRUM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Learn, if I dare, the order of the wind Last Line: Dreams not ours. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Silence; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
Learn, if I dare, the order of the wind, Fire, tempest and the sea. Learn if I dare into what mode of being The leaf falls from the tree. Everywhere There are holes in the air, Graves open to receive us, After the seventh colour And before the first Lies darkness. Beyond sound, silence Audible to bats And deep-sea fish that feel the throb of waves, Beyond sense, the spinning spheres, Atoms and stars That weave our lives. Lovers seek sanctuary In the abyss From which they fly, For in love's depths we sound The void Beyond mortality And through our sleep Move latent powers Strange as nebulae, Dreams not ours. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL A MESSAGE TO MICHAEL by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE |
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