Kathleen Jessie Raine Thought Poems

  • 1.
    A Gaelic bard they praise who in fourteen adjectives
    Named the one indivisible soul of his glen;
    For what are the bens and the glens but manifold qualities,
    Immeasurable complexities of soul?
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  • 2.
    O never harm the dreaming world,
    the world of green, the world of leaves,
    but let its million palms unfold
    the adoration of the trees.
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  • 4.
    Reaching down arm-deep into bright water
    I gathered on white sand under waves
    Shells, drifted up on beaches where I alone
    Inhabit a finite world of years and days.
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  • 5.
    Change
    Said the sun to the moon,
    You cannot stay.

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Total 5 Thought Poems by Kathleen Jessie Raine

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