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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORDER THE DESTRUCTION, by BIM MELGAARD First Line: Tawny arm of sleeping sand Last Line: And no living creature rests. | |||
Tawny arm of sleeping sand: Rouse and sweep the surf about you; Wrap the silvered green about you; Pull the sea across the land! Grasp it where the dead reef bleaches In the wet defracted sunlight, Where the blue fish flash in sunlight And a white gull dips and screeches. Hungry is the palm you nourish, Swayed in passion, bent with yearning; For the sea's assault she's yearning Though you feed the roots that flourish. Where the sky pins down the water, Rip and free his fluid body; Let the sea's green silken body Rise and mount upon your daughter, Bruise her eighty ochered breasts; While the sky-bowl tips and clatters, As the earth-plate cracks and clatters, And no living creature rests. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RETURN TO FORGOTTEN VALLEY by BIM MELGAARD WAIKIKI: DECEMBER by BIM MELGAARD WAIKIKI: EVENING by BIM MELGAARD WIND AT KAHUKA by BIM MELGAARD THE DEVIL'S WALK [ON EARTH] by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ROME. AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY by THOMAS HARDY THE BROKEN FIELD by SARA TEASDALE THE DOUBLE STANDARD by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS JUNGLE by WILLIMINA L. ARMSTRONG |
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