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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUR MOON'S AN ATTIC USED FOR STORAGE SPACE, by DAWSON POWELL First Line: Our moon's an attic used as storage space Last Line: From lunar shores when dawn's mist curtains burn. Subject(s): Attics; History; Moon; Historians | |||
Our moon's an attic used as storage space For trinkets, time-worn fancies, loves, and such; Where rents, to dreamers, cost not overmuch And thoughts, like mice, are free to romp and race. From star-dust peaks philosphers can face Earth-life's perplexities, beyond the clutch Of preachers praising each his patent crutch From temple doors about the market place. And poets, torn from beauty in the whirl Of dervish-maddened, scrambling life of men, Can view the earth -- a gossamer-draped girl Whose beauty serves at memory's altar when We part; we earth-bound souls who must return From lunar shores when dawn's mist curtains burn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES by JAMES MCMICHAEL THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE by JOHN ASHBERY INITIAL CONDITIONS by MARVIN BELL THE DREAM SONGS: 290 by JOHN BERRYMAN THE EROTICS OF HISTORY by EAVAN BOLAND THEM AND US by LUCILLE CLIFTON SONG OF THE AIRWAY by DAWSON POWELL |
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