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
- Cromwell’s Return poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Стефан Малларме – Отходит кружево опять
- Иннокентий Анненский – Из окна
- Омар Хайям – Долго ль будешь скорбеть и печалиться, друг
- Under Saturn by William Butler Yeats
- A Portrait poem – Alfred Austin
- A Petition poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- flight_of_stairs.html
- The Battle of the Baltic by Thomas Campbell
- Robert Burns: Charlie, He’s My Darling:
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
- Илья Эренбург – Я не трубач, труба
- The Old Age Of Queen Maeve by William Butler Yeats
- Where Lies The Land To Which Yon Ship Must Go? by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Жемчужников – Забудь их шумное волненье
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).
