Karl Shapiro Light Poems

  • 1.
    Save for a lusterless honing-stone of moon
    The sky stretches its flawless canopy
    Blue as the blue silk of the Jewish flag
    Over the valley and out to sea.
    ...
  • 2.
    What shall I teach in the vivid afternoon
    With the sun warming the blackboard and a slip
    Of cloud catching my eye?
    Only the cones and sections of the moon.
    ...
  • 3.
    With focus sharp as Flemish-painted face
    In film of varnish brightly fixed
    And through a polished hand-lens deeply seen,
    Sunday at noon through hyaline thin air
    ...
  • 4.
    Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white,
    And soon down ladders of reflected light
    The sleepers climb in silence. Gradually
    They separate on paths of long ago,
    ...
  • 5.
    The gates clanged and they walked you into jail
    More tense than felons but relieved to find
    The hostile world shut out, the flags that dripped
    From every motherĂ¢??s windowpane, obscene
    ...
  • 6.
    What should the wars do with these jigging fools?


    The man behind the book may not be man,
    ...
Total 6 Light Poems by Karl Shapiro

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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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