04 Jun Steel, Gold and Silver
Posted at 12:58h
in Poems
Steeled stars stiffly thread the invincible night
Machined in the powerful pressures of blued-heat
Hang upon them the gold-silver of thinnest light
Look – a fragile thing reigns from mercy seat
Beaten to shapes pouring eyes’ drunk delight
The will-o-wisp beauty-blinks flash-and-retreat
In undying wood or immortal steppe grasp
Leaves-silver and sleeves-gold tissue-fine
Hold by the harshly-hewn steely clasp
Sister-stem cups fleshy petal design
Caryatid cantos fade to a Doric gasp
See! fickle winds live with pastel’d sunshine
Between shiftless heaven and unbowed seas
I know beauty brittle and invasive to feel
Flushness of plush – lushness of blush-beauties
Lies in the bosom of roses in fields twilight teal
Hale and frail bound by cosmic laws as these
Man, gold – woman, silver – love, steel