[lit-ideas] Re: A poem for this morning
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 09:49:02 -0700
-- Something I wrote back in 1988.
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: A poem for this morning
Good poem, who's the author ? O.K.
--- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Mornings come and
> go
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> I vowed to creep out, up out of my youth,
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> And stand upon some wild hill
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> In a forest and wave my bloodied sword.
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> I would have been gored by wild boars
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> And an arrow shaft would glisten red
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> With the blood from my thigh, but I
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> Would breathe deeply, full of my own glory.
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> The world spun and I grew confused,
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> Till I dizzily tried to right it seeking
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> Solidity amidst its whirl. The light
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> Glistened from the dew held in the petal
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> Of a rose, and a deer raised its nose
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> And sniffed the air unaware
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> That I was anywhere about him.
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> How could he know that this being
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> Dripping with primeval slime
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> Had climbed out on the bank
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> Of eternity and held his life
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> In the whim of his hunger?
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> But I held all this in abeyance
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> And looked again at the rose,
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> Seeking its secret, the soft curve,
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> The red that almost blurs the eyes,
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> The fragrance of the brilliant mornings,
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> Cool before the first day's breeze
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> Such that one must lean down
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> And approach quite near to hear
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> Its message and taste its wonder.
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> I have leaned down now these last
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> Several years to hear eternity
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> Whisper. It has left no room
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> For my youthful folly nor my dreams.
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> I have seen a light around me
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> Glimmer and at certain times have heard
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> It call, with a soft insistence, my name.
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