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
- Shadow Overhead by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Safety-Clutch poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- On The Luxembourg Gallery by Washington Allston
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief by William Shakespeare
- Aubade by Philip Larkin
- Exposure by Wilfred Owen
- Meadowsweet by William Allingham
- Start Growing by Rixa White
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 4 by Robert Burns
- Sonnet. Why Did I Laugh Tonight? poem – John Keats poems
- Epigram on Miss Davies by Robert Burns
- Circus In Three Rings by Sylvia Plath
- Olney Hymn 27: Welcome To The Table by William Cowper
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