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sword blades & poppy seed-第5部分

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To them his smoke is sightless; black;

His votive vessels but a pack

Of old discarded shards; his fire

A peddler's; still to him the pyre

Is incensed; an enduring goal!

He sighs and grubs another coal。









Storm…Racked







How should I sing when buffeting salt waves

 And stung with bitter surges; in whose might

 I toss; a cockleshell?  The dreadful night

Marshals its undefeated dark and raves

In brutal madness; reeling over graves

 Of vanquished men; long…sunken out of sight;

 Sent wailing down to glut the ghoulish sprite

Who haunts foul seaweed forests and their caves。

 No parting cloud reveals a watery star;

My cries are washed away upon the wind;

 My cramped and blistering hands can find no spar;

My eyes with hope o'erstrained; are growing blind。

 But painted on the sky great visions burn;

 My voice; oblation from a shattered urn!









Convalescence







From out the dragging vastness of the sea;

 Wave…fettered; bound in sinuous; seaweed strands;

 He toils toward the rounding beach; and stands

One moment; white and dripping; silently;

Cut like a cameo in lazuli;

 Then falls; betrayed by shifting shells; and lands

 Prone in the jeering water; and his hands

Clutch for support where no support can be。

 So up; and down; and forward; inch by inch;

He gains upon the shore; where poppies glow

And sandflies dance their little lives away。

 The sucking waves retard; and tighter clinch

The weeds about him; but the land…winds blow;

And in the sky there blooms the sun of May。









Patience







Be patient with you?

 When the stooping sky

Leans down upon the hills

And tenderly; as one who soothing stills

 An anguish; gathers earth to lie

Embraced and girdled。  Do the sun…filled men

 Feel patience then?



Be patient with you?

 When the snow…girt earth

Cracks to let through a spurt

Of sudden green; and from the muddy dirt

 A snowdrop leaps; how mark its worth

To eyes frost…hardened; and do weary men

 Feel patience then?



Be patient with you?

 When pain's iron bars

Their rivets tighten; stern

To bend and break their victims; as they turn;

 Hopeless; there stand the purple jars

Of night to spill oblivion。  Do these men

 Feel patience then?



Be patient with you?

 You!  My sun and moon!

My basketful of flowers!

My money…bag of shining dreams!  My hours;

 Windless and still; of afternoon!

You are my world and I your citizen。

 What meaning can have patience then?









Apology







Be not angry with me that I bear

 Your colours everywhere;

 All through each crowded street;

  And meet

 The wonder…light in every eye;

  As I go by。



Each plodding wayfarer looks up to gaze;

 Blinded by rainbow haze;

 The stuff of happiness;

  No less;

 Which wraps me in its glad…hued folds

  Of peacock golds。



Before my feet the dusty; rough…paved way

 Flushes beneath its gray。

 My steps fall ringed with light;

  So bright;

 It seems a myriad suns are strown

  About the town。



Around me is the sound of steepled bells;

 And rich perfumed smells

 Hang like a wind…forgotten cloud;

  And shroud

 Me from close contact with the world。

  I dwell impearled。



You blazon me with jewelled insignia。

 A flaming nebula

 Rims in my life。  And yet

  You set

 The word upon me; unconfessed

  To go unguessed。









A Petition







I pray to be the tool which to your hand

 Long use has shaped and moulded till it be

 Apt for your need; and; unconsideringly;

You take it for its service。  I demand

To be forgotten in the woven strand

 Which grows the multi…coloured tapestry

 Of your bright life; and through its tissues lie

A hidden; strong; sustaining; grey…toned band。

 I wish to dwell around your daylight dreams;

The railing to the stairway of the clouds;

 To guard your steps securely up; where streams

A faery moonshine washing pale the crowds

 Of pointed stars。  Remember not whereby

 You mount; protected; to the far…flung sky。









A Blockhead







Before me lies a mass of shapeless days;

 Unseparated atoms; and I must

 Sort them apart and live them。  Sifted dust

Covers the formless heap。  Reprieves; delays;

There are none; ever。  As a monk who prays

 The sliding beads asunder; so I thrust

 Each tasteless particle aside; and just

Begin again the task which never stays。

 And I have known a glory of great suns;

When days flashed by; pulsing with joy and fire!

Drunk bubbled wine in goblets of desire;

 And felt the whipped blood laughing as it runs!

Spilt is that liquor; my too hasty hand

Threw down the cup; and did not understand。









Stupidity







Dearest; forgive that with my clumsy touch

 I broke and bruised your rose。

 I hardly could suppose

It were a thing so fragile that my clutch

    Could kill it; thus。



It stood so proudly up upon its stem;

 I knew no thought of fear;

 And coming very near

Fell; overbalanced; to your garment's hem;

    Tearing it down。



Now; stooping; I upgather; one by one;

 The crimson petals; all

 Outspread about my fall。

They hold their fragrance still; a blood…red cone

    Of memory。



And with my words I carve a little jar

 To keep their scented dust;

 Which; opening; you must

Breathe to your soul; and; breathing; know me far

    More grieved than you。









Irony







An arid daylight shines along the beach

 Dried to a grey monotony of tone;

 And stranded jelly…fish melt soft upon

The sun…baked pebbles; far beyond their reach

Sparkles a wet; reviving sea。  Here bleach

 The skeletons of fishes; every bone

 Polished and stark; like traceries of stone;

The joints and knuckles hardened each to each。

 And they are dead while waiting for the sea;

 The moon…pursuing sea; to come again。

Their hearts are blown away on the hot breeze。

 Only the shells and stones can wait to be

 Washed bright。  For living things; who suffer pain;

May not endure till time can bring them ease。









Happiness







Happiness; to some; elation;

Is; to others; mere stagnation。

Days of passive somnolence;

At its wildest; indolence。

Hours of empty quietness;

No delight; and no distress。



Happiness to me is wine;

Effervescent; superfine。

Full of tang and fiery pleasure;

Far too hot to leave me leisure

For a single thought beyond it。

Drunk!  Forgetful!  This the bond:  it

Means to give one's soul to gain

Life's quintessence。  Even pain

Pricks to livelier living; then

Wakes the nerves to laugh again;

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow。

Although we must die to…morrow;

Losing every thought but this;

Torn; triumphant; drowned in bliss。



Happiness:  We rarely feel it。

I would buy it; beg it; steal it;

Pay in coins of dripping blood

For this one transcendent good。









The Last Quarter of the Moon







How long shall I tarnish the mirror of life;

A spatter of rust on its polished steel!

 The seasons reel

 Like a goaded wheel。

Half…numb; half…maddened; my days are strife。



The night is sliding towards the dawn;

And upturned hills crouch at autumn's knees。

 A torn moon flees

 Through the hemlock trees;

The hours have gnawed it to feed their spawn。



Pursuing and jeering the misshapen thing

A rabble of clouds flares out of the east。

 Like dogs unleashed

 After a beast;

They stream on the sky; an outflung string。



A desolate wind; through the unpeopled dark;

Shakes the bushes and whistles through empty nests;

 And the fierce unrests

 I keep as guests

Crowd my brain with corpses; pallid and stark。



Leave me in peace; O Spectres; who haunt

My labouring mind; I have fought and failed。

 I have not quailed;

 I was all unmailed

And naked I strove; 'tis my only vaunt。



The moon drops into the silver day

As waking out of her swoon she comes。

 I hear the drums

 Of millenniums

Beating the mornings I still must stay。



The years I must watch go in and out;

While I build with water; and dig in air;

 And the trumpets blare

 Hollow despair;

The shuddering trumpets of utter rout。



An atom tossed in a chaos made

Of yeasting worlds; which bubble and foam。

 Whence have I come?

 What would be home?

I hear no answer。  I am afraid!



I crave to be lost like a wind…blown flame。

Pushed into nothingness by a breath;

 And quench in a wreath

 Of engulfing death

This fight for a God; or this devil's game。









A Tale of Starvation







There once was a man whom the gods didn't love;

 And a disagreeable man was he。

He loathed his neighbours; and his neighbours hated him;

 And he cursed eternally。



He damned the sun; and he damned the stars;

 And he blasted the winds in the sky。

He s
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