CIII
Don February 20th, 2010
CIII
Wordsworth wrote an endless poem in blank verse on” the growth of a poet’s mind.” I shall attempt a more modest feat for a more distracted age: a blog, “Things which a Lifetime of Trying to Be a Poet has Taught Me.”
Morning ground-fog hugging the low-lying folds of land when one is starting off on a journey as the sun comes up is one of the most beautiful—and ephemeral—things that Nature does. No adventure begins quite right without it.
An Early Start
(To Shope Fork, N.C.)
Sonnet XXXIV
“Tonight the Fog will come to the bottoms to keep
A tryst with his bride, the River. In the morning,
If we are careful, we’ll catch him quite asleep
Right there on the bank beside her still, scorning
To notice the stars fading, to take warning,
Knowing it takes most half a day for the sun
To reach this valley floor with any warming.
So over the meadow he spreads his blanket, spun
Of moonlight that shines on when the moon is done.”
The walkers were careful not to disturb the pair
Of lovers as they left. When the peaks were won,
They returned; the River alone was waiting there.
“Where does he go? No one has seen it aright.
I only know he’ll be back again tonight.”
Donald T. Williams, PhD
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