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GRAFTON IN SPRING city poem in Genghis Lotus Poetry Collection, a selection of poems free to read online. Webmaster for this site is poet Hugh Cook, born in Britain, educated in New Zealand, and the author of, amongst other works, the fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness.
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The winds pasture in the clouds; The earth breathes: Spring earth soft with water, Dense with leaf, And a duck puddles in the water In the ditch by the motorway, And the broad bank is vivid with flowers, Gloss buttercup and the dandilion flare; The young oak flourishes leaf And the beercan rusts at its roots. Cars scythe past and echo in the stone: Square buildings where the night survives, Where winter lingers. Sun bakes the clay; Stone postures in the sky: The great bridge arcs the gully Across the tar and dust Where engines churn and iron moves To satisfy the lust Of oil dreams and senile hands, Grey plans of steel and power. The grass cradles my body: I lie in the shade of the cloud, In the cirrus hours, And listen to the earth inhale the sun. |
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