Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


CONTACT by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG

First Line: O FLAME-SHAPED CYPRESSES
Last Line: IT IS THEY WHO LIGHT THE STARS?
Subject(s): CYPRESS TREES; STARS;

O flame-shaped cypresses,
trembling in the dark:
Is it your roots
are agrip with craters of the earth,
that your tips
stretch so serenely,
it is they who light the stars?



Home: PoetryExplorer.net