SPECTRUM POEMS

Valentine

My heart is yours
I know for sure
But not so sure
your heart is mine.
.....

C K Rawat

Sea-gulls

For one carved instant as they flew,
The language had no simile-
Silver, crystal, ivory
Were tarnished. Etched upon the horizon blue,
.....

E. J. Pratt

The Spectrum

HOW many colors here do we see set,
Like rings upon Godâ??s finger? Some say three,
Some four, some six, some seven. All agree
To left of red, to right of violet,
.....

William Cosmo Monkhouse

The Black Virgin

One in thy thousand statues we salute thee
On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim
Who walk in forest of thy forms and faces
Walk in a forest calling on one name
.....

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Great Adventure Of Max Breuck: 32

Of every pattern and in every shade.
Nacreous, iridescent, mottled, checked.
Some purest sulphur-yellow, others made
An ivory-white with disks of copper flecked.
.....

Amy Lowell

A Poor Christian Looks At The Ghetto

Bees build around red liver,
Ants build around black bone.
It has begun: the tearing, the trampling on silks,
It has begun: the breaking of glass, wood, copper, nickel, silver, foam
.....

Czeslaw Milosz

The Rising Of The Sun

I did not expect to live in such an unusual moment.
When the God of thunders and of rocky heights,
The Lord of hosts, Kyrios Sabaoth,
Would humble people to the quick,
.....

Czeslaw Milosz

Voyages Iv

Whose counted smile of hours and days, suppose
I know as spectrum of the sea and pledge
Vastly now parting gulf on gulf of wings
Whose circles bridge, I know, (from palms to the severe
.....

Harold Hart Crane

No Stranger Dream

One rapid gesture of a supple arm
Has made your beauty strange and fabulous:
Mystery folds you and reveals you, thus
Weaving anew the seven-circled charm.
.....

Clark Ashton Smith

O Thou Of Little Faith.

It may be true
That while we walk the troublous tossing sea,
That when we see the o'ertopping waves advance,
And when we feel our feet beneath us sink,
.....

Arthur Hugh Clough

Love Is A Parallax

'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy:
train tracks always meet, not here, but only
in the impossible mind's eye;
horizons beat a retreat as we embark
.....

Sylvia Plath

The Nameless Wraith

As one who seeks the silver moth of night
Where moonless gardens lose the afterglow,
My soul went forth ineffably, to know
Some vaguer vision unrevealed of light.
.....

Clark Ashton Smith

Shadow And Light

Cease, empty Faith, the Spectrum saith,
I was, and lo, have been;
I, God, am nought: a shade of thought,
Which, but by darkness seen,
.....

Arthur Hugh Clough

Where It Used To Be

Tears keep falling unintentionally
All I do is look at the empty room
Where there used to be bliss
Now I hear the rain drops from the pores of the roof
.....

Chinneye George

The African Child

A stranger in his motherland
In search of the meaning of life
But to no avail

.....

Ezea Ikenna Precious

Frequencies

Wave particle duality harmonic,
electromagnetic mean ratio subsonic.
Cohorts gravity gleaming in purple gold,
light forces and its tenacious sensuous fold.
.....

Robert Rittel

The African Child

A stranger in his mother land
In search of the meaning of life
But to no avail

.....

Ezea Ikenna Precious

The Vail

Through the spectrum of ethereal plain,
lights follow the issuing wisdom train.
Spoken of by fair nymphs pointing to those beams,
the Vail of belief to adore and its waiting redeems.
.....

Robert Rittel