Robert Francis Green Poems

  • 1.
    My mind matches this understand land.
    Outdoors the pencilled tree, the wind-carved drift,
    Indoors the constant fire, the careful thrift
    Are facts that I accept and understand.
    ...
  • 2.
    Those who have touched it or been touched by it
    Or brushed by something that the vine has brushed,
    Or burning it, have stood where the sly smoke
    Has touched them-Know the meaning of its name.
    ...
  • 3.
    How lush, how loose, the uninhibited squash is.
    If ever hearts (and these immoderate leaves
    Are vegetable hearts) were worn on sleeves,
    The squash's are. In green the squash vine gushes.
    ...
  • 4.
    Winter uses all the blues there are.
    One shade of blue for water, one for ice,
    Another blue for shadows over snow.
    The clear or cloudy sky uses blue twice-
    ...
  • 5.
    The winter apples have been picked, the garden turned.
    Rain and wind have picked the maple leaves and gone.
    The last of them now bank the house or have been burned.
    None are left upon the trees or on the lawn.
    ...
Total 5 Green Poems by Robert Francis

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