English Poetry

An artist is an explorer An artist is an explorer. Delighting, reveling in the constant challenge of creation, in the quest for excellence and perpetual self-exceeding. The material for an artist's work are not without ; the artist is the material he works on. All...

Sea of lights Sea of lights, Of diamond waves Whose crests and troughs Are gold. Sea of lights Whose endless rollers Burst on the brain As foam. Sea of ra pture, Horizon to horizon, Inviolable As fire. Sea of silence, With deep undercurrents Of consciousness, Of...

If I could draw If I could draw With diamond lights Across the face of sky, Mix space and glass With silver light And clump them as clay, And on the lattice Of pure absence Sculpt a living shape, I could create A semblance of you, Perhaps your presence portray. If I...

The skull of a moon The skull of a moon Stares with hollow eyes. His bones are white. His glare is bright. His body glows Lit with phosphorus, The dazzling flare Stripped bare. His only sight A vast nihil, The void horizon His dominion, The smile of carious teeth...

A diamond sea A diamond sea Overllows matter, Objects sparkle And coruscate, Grains of sand With powdered gold And silica! Body of Christ! When veins fill up With light And limbs float helpless In a tranquil sea That shimmers with wine And burns cobalt And white. Body...

The white sky The white sky opens my ears With silence, Fills each limb To the bone. Like a vast canvas, It stretches before the eye, Spotless and still, Vibrant and tremulous. When see myself In its face, lts silver glint Mirror to the soul, I grow helpless as a sea...

The crystalline strings Of mind The crystalline strings Of mind Along which silver Harmonies combine Play each solitary thought Note after shining note. You draw the musical scene So clear that each Color is seen. The end of the Concerto For Two Violins In D Minor ls...

Around the globe Teacher, friend, guide, 1978-85 Around the globe of pure light, They all come to chat In the deepest night. Wearing a smock of glowing white, An old man sat Around the globe of pure light. His face grows bright. He has found a new way to teach the...

In the dim light In the dim light, Holding the bottle to your lips, A new realm opens. The world grows velvet, Senses soften, congeal In a Universe of lullaby And starlit sheets. A world of infinite gentleness Like your bare chest rising And falling as you drift Into...