Arthur Seymour John Tessimond World Poems

• 1. Last Word To Childhood
  Ice-cold fear has slowly decreased
  As my bones have grown, my height increased.
  Though I shiver in snow of dreams, I shall never
  Freeze again in a noonday terror.
  ...
• 2. To Be Blind
  Is it sounds
  converging,
  Sounds
  nearing,
  ...
• 3. Earthfast
  Architects plant their imagination, weld their poems on rock,
  Clamp them to the skidding rim of the world and anchor them down to its core;
  Leave more than the painter's or poet's snail-bright trail on a friable leaf;
  Can build their chrysalis round them - stand in their sculpture's belly.
  ...
• 4. The British
  We are a people living in shells and moving
  Crablike; reticent, awkward, deeply suspicious;
  Watching the world from a corner of half-closed eyelids,
  Afraid lest someone show that he hates or loves us,
  ...
• 5. Unlyric Love Song
  It is time to give that-of-myself which I could not at first:
  To offer you now at last my least and my worst:
  Minor, absurd preserves,
  The shell's end-curves,
  ...
• 6. Any Man Speaks
  I, after difficult entry through my mother's blood
  And stumbling childhood (hitting my head against the world);
  I, intricate, easily unshipped, untracked, unaligned;
  Cut off in my communications; stammering; speaking
  ...

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