Judith Wright I Love You Poems
- 1. Niggers Leap, New England
The eastward spurs tip backward from the sun.
Nights runs an obscure tide round cape and bay
and beats with boats of cloud up from the sea
against this sheer and limelit granite head.
... - 2. To A Child
When I was a child I saw
a burning bird in a tree.
I see became I am,
I am became I see.
... - 3. Turning Fifty
Having known war and peace
and loss and finding,
I drink my coffee and wait
for the sun to rise,
... - 4. All Things Conspire
All things conspire to hold me from you -
even my love,
since that would mask you and unname you
till merely woman and man we live.
... - 5. Woman To Child
You who were darkness warmed my flesh
where out of darkness rose the seed.
Then all a world I made in me;
all the world you hear and see
... - 6. Naked Girl And Mirror
This is not I. I had no body once-
only what served my need to laugh and run
and stare at stars and tentatively dance
on the fringe of foam and wave and sand and sun.
... - 7. Sonnet For Christmas
I saw our golden years on a black gale,
our time of love spilt in the furious dust.
'O we are winter-caught, and we must fail,'
said the dark dream, 'and time is overcast.'
... - 8. The Old Prison
The rows of cells are unroofed,
a flute for the wind's mouth,
who comes with a breath of ice
from the blue caves of the south.
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