To a Lighthouse
...Sentinel of water’s beauty and breadth,
grand messenger of danger
so statuesque around an ocean's expanse--
O beaming guardian of light
Moon and waves crest upon dark of eve,
it’s ti...
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Categories:
wardship, devotion, light,
Form: Ode
Le Rat Noir - Translation of Iris Clayton's the Black Rat By T Wignesan
...Le Rat Noir – Translation of Iris Clayton’s « The Black Rat » by T. Wignesan
(Iris Clayton of the Wiradjuri tribe in New South Wales was born in 1945. One of nine children, six of the elder chi...
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Categories:
wardship, discrimination, hero, political, war,
Form: Quatrain
Transient Beauty
...Breath of spring and fresh romances flown
Farther than where clouds their dew have wept!
Hither sweep your hand upon all seeds unsown:
Reap the gold in winter’s wardship kept!
Bashfully, the m...
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Categories:
wardship, beauty, death, loneliness, nature,
Form: Rhyme