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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIME IS MOST UNQUIET, by TOONI GORDI First Line: There we were sitting, like too-thin ghosts Last Line: We were like ghosts awaiting some still doom. Subject(s): Fear; Ghosts; Supernatural; Time | |||
There we were sitting, like too-thin ghosts Afraid to speak -- Afraid? -- We who had feared Not anything were there afraid and still. I gazed into the pregnant dark; and you -- You who had been the effervescent star, The firmament to me -- you were quite still: Still as the darkling sky, if skies be still. I listened for the word I wanted there, And heard the awful stillness . . . Was it you Remembering? -- Forgetting? -- in a void? Was it your touching voice I heard a while, The voice that throbbed in trembling silver once? But I was in a wonderment and hurt . . . Was it pain I felt, or your still presence Pressing into my spirit like a sword? Yet all of the time -- and time is most unquiet -- We were like ghosts awaiting some still doom. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD |
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