Learn, if I dare, the order of the wind, Fire, tempest and the sea. Learn if I dare into what mode of being The leaf falls from the tree. Everywhere There are holes in the air, Graves open to receive us, After the seventh colour And before the first Lies darkness. Beyond sound, silence Audible to bats And deep-sea fish that feel the throb of waves, Beyond sense, the spinning spheres, Atoms and stars That weave our lives. Lovers seek sanctuary In the abyss From which they fly, For in love's depths we sound The void Beyond mortality And through our sleep Move latent powers Strange as nebulae, Dreams not ours. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI: 2. HEAT by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER FAITHLESS NELLY GRAY; A PATHETIC BALLAD by THOMAS HOOD SYMPATHY by HENRY DAVID THOREAU PROMETHEUS BOUND: THE OVERTHROW OF ZEUS by AESCHYLUS THE JEW'S GIFT; A.D. 1200 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH STANZAS TO M.P. by BERNARD BARTON |