"My Heart Thinks as the Sun Comes Up"

Random Poetry List IX

My heart thinks as the sun comes up
   that what it does is wise:
   as earth borrows its light,
      as pledge it takes the stars.

Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021-1055)

Originally e-mailed on Saturday, February 03, 2001 @ 7:57 AM.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/03/05 05:41:12 PM
Categorized as Literary & Random Poetry List.

"Season Song"

Random Poetry List VIII

Season Song

Here's a song—
stags give tongue
winter snows
summer goes.

High cold blow
sun is low
brief his day
seas give spray.

Fern clumps redden
shapes are hidden
wildgeese raise
wonted cries.

Cold now girds
wings of birds
icy time—
that's my rime.

Anonymous (Irish Gaelic, circa AD 800)
tr. Flann O'Brien

Originally e-mailed on Wednesday, February 03, 1999 @ 11:03 PM.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 02/03/05 07:34:03 AM
Categorized as Literary & Random Poetry List.