Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A YEAR OR A LIFETIME, by ALICE CRAIG REDHEAD


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A YEAR OR A LIFETIME, by                    
First Line: Swift-winged and white-silenced, each day is a bird
Last Line: Tomorrow you, also, may learn you can fly.
Subject(s): Time


Swift-winged and white-silenced, each day is a bird
With plumage translucent, pinions of gold
That quiver and pulse in life's tensile hold
While all earth seems listening to songs yet unheard.
Days filled with planning, hoping and doing
Speeding and racing as though in the distance
Young carolers waited in joyous reviewing
A happy chanson to waft to existence.

A year or a lifetime, days lose all count
For only by growth of man's inner soul
Can time be conquered and youth find its fount,
The pattern validified, perfect and whole.
Why mourn for years that have flown lightly by,
Tomorrow you, also, may learn you can fly.





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