Light’s patterns freeze:
Frost on our faces.
Light’s pollen sifts
Through the lids of our eyes …
Light sinks and rusts
In water; is broken
By glass … rests
On deserted dust.
Light lies like torn
Paper in corners:
A rock-pool’s pledge
Of the sea’s return.
Light, wrenched at the edges
By wind, looks down
At itself in wrinkled
Mirrors from bridges.
Light thinly unweaves
Itself through darkness
Like foam’s unknotting
Strings in waves …
Now light is again
Accumulated
Swords against us …
Now it is gone.
Submitted by Stephen Fryer
(Arthur Seymour John Tessimond)
More Poetry from Arthur Seymour John Tessimond:
Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Poems based on Topics: Light, Water, Faces- Attack On The Ad-Man (Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Poems)
- Chaplin (Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Poems)
- Black Morning Lovesong (Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Poems)
- Any Man Speaks (Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Poems)
- Earthfast (Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Poems)
- Epitaph On A Disturber Of His Times (Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Poems)
Readers Who Like This Poem Also Like:
Based on Topics: Light Poems, Faces Poems, Water PoemsBased on Keywords: rusts, fryer, rock-pool, unweaves, unknotting
- Out Of The East (John Freeman Poems)
- Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. - Canto III. (Matthew Prior Poems)
- Book III - Part 03 - The Soul is Mortal (Lucretius Poems)
- Of The Nature Of Things: Book II - Part 03 - Atomic Forms And Their Combinations (Lucretius Poems)
- Rhodon And Iris. Act III (Ralph Knevet Poems)