I, or Someone Like Me
by Marvin Bell
In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing
through trees, with a wind playing all the high notes,
and the prospect of a string bass inside the wood,
I, or someone like me, had a kind of vision.
As the person on the ground moved, bursting halos
topped first one tree, then another and another,
till the work of sight was forced to go lower
into a dark lair of fallen logs and fungi.
His was the wordless death of words, worse
for he remembered exactly where the words were
on his tongue, and before that how they fell
effortlessly from the brainpan behind his eyes.
But the music continued and the valley of forest floor
became itself an interval in a natural melody
attuned to the wind, embedded in the bass of boughs,
the tenor of branches, the percussion of twigs.
He, or someone like him, laughed at first,
dismissing what had happened as the incandescence
of youthful metabolism, as the slight fermentation
of the last of the wine, or as each excuse of love.
Learning then the constancy of music and of mind,
now he takes seriously that visionary wood
where he saw his being and his future underfoot
and someone like me listening for a resolution.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Gardener XXIX: Speak To Me My Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Dica by Sappho
- Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
- Clarence by Shel Silverstein
- Braga by Walid Saba
- Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time] by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood: is expressed in the Rev. Dr. Babington’s very looks.
- A Grave by Marianne Moore
- Ephemera by William Butler Yeats
- Shema by Primo Levi
- Mother
- Come After Jinny by Shel Silverstein
- Ballade Of The Dream poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Robert Burns: Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me:
- Анатолий Жигулин – Береза
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