Light and Darkness

Light is light, and darkness’s dark  Until it’s pierced by an unexpected spark  And then in an explosion of delight  We see how hapless darkness turns to light. Fledermauswww.poetry.monster

Obscurity, the Essay and Poems on Obscurity by Abraham Cowley

OF OBSCURITY. Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, Nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit. God made not pleasures only for the rich, Nor have those men without their share too lived, Who both in life and death the world deceived. This seems a strange sentence thus literally translated, and looks as if it were in vindication […]

Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond   Cats no less liquid than their shadows Offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat through loopholes Less than themselves; will not be pinned To rules or routes for journeys; counter Attack with non-resistance; twist Enticing through the curving fingers And leave an angered empty fist. […]