Poetry – the Brussels sprouts of literature

Rx: Have a bit of Bobby Frost  this busy day!

 

Once by the Pacific

The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God’s last Put out the Light was spoken.

 

Yet he also noted:

 

Devotion

The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean””
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.

 

 

Amen.

 

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