SOME POEMS BY AMANDA HAMILTON,
“I must let go now.
Let you go.
Love is too often
The answer for staying.
Too Seldom the reason
For going.
I drop the line
And watch you drift away.
“All along
You thought
The fiery current
Of your lover’s breast
Pulled you to the deep.
But it was my heart-tide
Releasing you
To float adrift
With seaweed.”
“Fading moon, follow
My footsteps
Through light unbroken
By land shadows,
And share my senses
That feel the cool
Shoulder of silence.
“Only you know
How one side of a moment
Is stretched by loneliness
For miles
To the other edge,
And how much sky
Is in one breath
When time slides backward
From the sand.”
Child to child
Eye to eye
We grew as one,
Sharing souls.
Wing by wing,
Leaf by leaf
You left this world,
You died before the child.
My friend, the Wild.
Sunsets are never simple.
Twilight is refracted and reflected
But never true.
Eventide is a disguise
Covering tracks,
Covering lies.
We don’t care
That dusk deceives.
We see brilliant colors,
And never learn
The sun has dropped
Beneath the earth
By the time we see the burn.
Sunsets are in disguise,
overnight truths, covering lies.
JOHN MASEFIELD, ‘SEA FEVER’
… all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung spray and the blown spike, and the
sea-gulls crying.
A POEM BY GALWAY KINNELL,
I did care…
I did everything I thought
In the mildest words I knew. And now, …
I have to say I am relieved it is over:
At the end I could feel only pity
For that urge towards more life.
… Goodbye.