Cold Mountain owns a house with no partitions inside six doors open left and right from the hall he sees blue sky wherever he looks it's bare the east wall greets the west nothing stands between them no need for anyone's care he makes a small fire when cold comes cooks plants when hunger arrives he isn't like the old farmer enlarging his fields and sheds creating nothing but hell-bound karma once begun it never ends think this over well think and discover the key | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LAST LINES OF THOMAS INGOLDSBY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM MAY AND DEATH by ROBERT BROWNING UPON THE SAME by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS SHAKE, MULLEARY AND GO-ETHE by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER THE CHILD IN BLACK by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR TO THE READER OF MASTER WILLIAM D'AVENANT'S PLAY, 'THE WITS' by THOMAS CAREW TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. I SAW A VISION by EDWARD CARPENTER |