"Fascination with Light" is a brilliant poem, Mike, and is just perfect the way you have it. But you also include a verse from a longer version that is way too good to discard. Can you possibly make it into a poem in its own right, with its own title etc.? I really like it.
"Fascination with Light" is a brilliant poem, Mike, and is just perfect the way you have it. But you also include a verse from a longer version that is way too good to discard. Can you possibly make it into a poem in its own right, with its own title etc.? I really like it.
"And still it returns on incessant wings—
ruthless grey monarch of the night air.
It flutters and stares
with huge primitive eyes, and it sees
beyond ruinous nights
to all the loveliness inherent there;
and it sings all the hideous despair
of its unworthiness, in a frenzy of wings;
and its desolate womb holds incurled in silk
the husks of dread kings and pale lovers."
I may call the the longer poem "Fascination with Light II" and I'm glad you liked it.
That sounds like a good plan.