Sidney Beck Poet Imagism

Clarity From Obscurity

CLARITY   FROM  OBSCURITY

Time the wanderer  -
For  a pyramid moment stilled  -
On a rain-filled winter night
In dark  narrow streets
Often  hostile, alien,
Tonight  familiar friends,
Seems  to  offer  safe limits. 

Certainty in darkness and  no intrusions,
Sure in the woods of Arkengarthdale,
In snow-strewn lanes of Lamesley, 
Or  ankle-covering bluebells
With no path trodden yet.

Gleaming patches of  light  
Reflected in the rain pools 
Lead away through dark entrances,
    -only lit on solstice days  
     when fate is face-to-face 
     in New Grange or Giza  -
To unseen distant streets.They remain   
Closed in bright sunlit days.


30   December  2019 .



NOTE.       The neolithic structures at New Grange, Ireland,    and  at  Giza, Egypt    share the  feature of being angled to receive sunlight only  at winter solstice (December  23). The entrances to the structures are otherwise always in   blackness.

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