Midge millions in a thousand galaxies hang like dust along the highways. A man casts a far shadow over the wheatfield. In the skytrack magenta clouds move slowly eastward ... Between a square mile of wheat and a section of cool, damp sweet clover, A man watches white smoke rising from a strawpile. The reddened west turns to soft salmon -- Then darkness: Arcturus, Spica, Vega and Deneb mark the heavens. The straw fire glows like a volcano -- And a yellow moon looks slantingly down from Sagittarius. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SPELLIN' BEE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR COUNTER-ATTACK by SIEGFRIED SASSOON A MOTHER'S BIRTHDAY by HENRY VAN DYKE THE RAINBOW [IN THE SKY] by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH HARVARD DECLARES WAR by BRENT DOW ALLINSON EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 18. HARD TO BE PLEASED by PHILIP AYRES TWELVE SONNETS: 3. THE VALLEY ROSES by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |