by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
(Three gold bangles found on Colyton Raleigh Moor, 1986) The Pleiades, bejewellèd scorn,Watch Halley’s Comet come and goSo many times,So many times …Here in the mud and stones we lie,Cast silent witness to the sky,And wait for you. We clasped the white of... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Nameless in some lost oblivion, Darkly hopeless out of sight; Waiting, Turning, Loyal ever On the echo fringes of the night. Unseen shadow closing slowly, Steady on the homeward run; Ancient, Youthful, Never failing, Sweeping inward; turning to the sun. Northward... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
To restless eyes of wandering men You seem to be Remote, Enshrouded in a yielding crust Of lonely mystery. Part Chinese foodstuff, part a jest, Part menace of the sea; A mouth In dappled sunlight on the sands, Brave symbol of the free. You blindly graze on the... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Peach pip, you’re about to visitWorlds of which you never dreamed.I’m about to throw you forthwithIn the rolling ocean deeps,Deeps so very deep and darkYou’d be right to have the creeps. Peach pip, I believe there must beTen thousand feet of water... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Nor friend nor foeBut neutral to all thought,The tilting sky leans too and fro,Whilst the long rollers surge past on their taskOf aimless travel through the maiden years.Too and fro, and too and fro againThe restless hills for ever roll in vain. Fleet bird of... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Somebody splashed all his coloured paints To make dawn in the desert sky, Then he poured them into the race of time But forgot to mention why. And with them he poured the scented warmth Of summer nights on the Nile, And with them too the morning breeze And the bright...