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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORDER THE DESTRUCTION, by BIM MELGAARD First Line: Tawny arm of sleeping sand Last Line: And no living creature rests. | |||
Tawny arm of sleeping sand: Rouse and sweep the surf about you; Wrap the silvered green about you; Pull the sea across the land! Grasp it where the dead reef bleaches In the wet defracted sunlight, Where the blue fish flash in sunlight And a white gull dips and screeches. Hungry is the palm you nourish, Swayed in passion, bent with yearning; For the sea's assault she's yearning Though you feed the roots that flourish. Where the sky pins down the water, Rip and free his fluid body; Let the sea's green silken body Rise and mount upon your daughter, Bruise her eighty ochered breasts; While the sky-bowl tips and clatters, As the earth-plate cracks and clatters, And no living creature rests. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RETURN TO FORGOTTEN VALLEY by BIM MELGAARD WAIKIKI: DECEMBER by BIM MELGAARD WAIKIKI: EVENING by BIM MELGAARD WIND AT KAHUKA by BIM MELGAARD IMITATION OF POPE: A COMPLIMENT TO THE LADIES by WILLIAM BLAKE A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10. THE DYING FALL by THOMAS CAMPION ONLY A WOMAN by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (FROM A WESTERNER'S POINT OF VIEW) by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR |
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