by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Thoughts on a painting by Munke Lonely redhead by the sea,why do you look away?Today and yesterday,tomorrow too,dull rock, blind seaand you. What have you done?Do voiceless tempests blaze in unseen eyesor glittering careless worlds of tearsor blank despair like... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
The smoke from the peat will drift In the mists of morning, And the tides of time will roll Round the heather hills, Till they mix in the wisp of the smile of the silent dawning Of the world of a child of the peat and the heather hills. It floats like the empty years... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Sunlight On bright carpets walls and ceilings Nothing except emptiness And eight rightangular corners watching each room There is no past here Just bright carpets walls and ceilings And groups of eight rightangular corners waiting for the new tenants But close your... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Fluttering stardust brushed meAs she faltered in her flight,And the touch of her wings was lightning in the dusk …But when she was gone there was nothing there,Save the empty breeze in the passing year. Sprite from another worldPleaseReturn once again like the... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Statistics for an anonymous sperm Are you half bird or half a monster,Half insect of half questing man?Just now, who cares?Keep wriggling fast;I fear this race might be your last. A sort of Roman race, where dieAll those who do not lead the field,No quarter given,No... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Come Apple Crisp as an Autumn day Firm red-streaked greenness Quietly satisfied with your own version of off-roundedness Snuggling hopefully in my hand For what? Born To tempt The eye and nose and touch Of roaming omnivores, You live not to make love nor a cultural...