WATER LILLIES AND ADVICE
by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
Yellow, faithful in petals,
bouncing from intended green,
a surround, stemming toward the sun.
How the eye obeys its given
limits, as the curve of leaf
designs its own exactness.
What link informs another?
Beware the lays of magic,
Chaucer told his son, Lowys.
Consult the astrolabe when
rocks appear to disappear,
he said. The sun, the moon.
Their closeness to the crust caused
roiling tides that swallowed rock.
Lay sorcerers to rest, my son.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- On Invalids (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- The Wanderings of Oisin: Book II by William Butler Yeats
- Джон Донн – Ничто
- Василий Казин – Письмо
- К нам приходит в день февральский снежною тропой
- The Land by Rudyard Kipling
- Dirce by Walter Savage Landor
- Владимир Маяковский – Помогай фронту… (РОСТА №480)
- Владимир Вишневский – Долго же мы друг друга откладывали
- Владимир Высоцкий – Отпустите мне грехи
- British Freedom by William Wordsworth
- Behavior. by Walt Whitman
- The Magi by William Butler Yeats
- Sometimes with One I Love. by Walt Whitman
- Стефан Малларме – Милостыня
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
