by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Blue is the theme here, Blue wall fading in the distance. Coral stems thrusting to the sunlight, from blueness into gold, Then failing; Falling as broken blocks and slowly trickling sand To deeper blue. Living and dying at the same time, But mostly dying. Gentle... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Why do you exhaust yourself, butterfly, Beating into the winds from the sea? These are the South East Trades you know; They like to blow at twenty knots. Are you drawn towards where the green water merges to the blue? And the blue sky to the blue mist? Or do you seek... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
Creep and eat across the leavesAnd planYour plan without a word. All the same, I deprecate these holes; they reduce my efforts at photosynthesis. I would have preferred the plan not to have depended on eating bits out of me, even although what is left may be destined... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
A wandering fairy made her of rain and sun and soil And gave her the promise of lovetime in the spring, So her soul went into the dark roots, twisted, determined and grim, Thrusting and seeking and finding Colour for spring. The winds and the storm clouds mingle, sad... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
A smile here more, a smile here less,And phantom worlds are lost in night,Phantom eyes fade from the lightAs the glittering dancers pass. Mirror, mirror in the sky,Aurora Nothing is the name,Silent lights without a flame,Which dance as the phantoms pass. Colour comes... by Rab Eden | Poems for a Summer Day
I slaughtered her, my sunflower. I could probably not have done so had she been wired to an electroencephalograph, showing her hopes and fears and loyalties. She was my friend, but when the day came I took a saw and calmly hacked her down. I heard her make no cry, but...