Robert Penn Warren Poems (7 Poems)
A Way to Love God (Robert Penn Warren Poems)
Here is the shadow of truth, for only the shadow is true. And the line where the incoming swell from the sunset Pacific First leans and staggers to break will tell all you need to know About submarine geography, and … Continue reading
Evening Hawk (Robert Penn Warren Poems)
From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds, Out of the peak’s black angularity of shadow, riding The last tumultuous avalanche of Light above pines and the guttural gorge, The hawk comes. … Continue reading
Mortal Limit (Robert Penn Warren Poems)
I saw the hawk ride updraft in the sunset over Wyoming. It rose from coniferous darkness, past gray jags Of mercilessness, past whiteness, into the gloaming Of dream-spectral light above the lazy purity of snow-snags. There–west–were the Tetons.Snow-peaks would soon … Continue reading
Tell Me a Story (Robert Penn Warren Poems)
Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard The great geese hoot northward. I could not see them, there being no moon And the stars sparse.I heard them. I did not … Continue reading
True Love (Robert Penn Warren Poems)
In silence the heart raves.It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning.I was ten, skinny, red-headed, Freckled.In a big black Buick, Driven by a big grown boy, with a necktie, she sat In front of the drugstore, sipping something … Continue reading
San Francisco Night Windows (Robert Penn Warren Poems)
So hangs the hour like fruit fullblown and sweet, Our strict and desperate avatar, Despite that antique westward gulls lament Over enormous waters which retreat Weary unto the white and sensual star. Accept these images for what they are– Out … Continue reading
True Love (Robert Penn Warren Poem)
In silence the heart raves. It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning. I was ten, skinny, red-headed, Freckled. In a big black Buick, Driven by a big grown boy, with a necktie, she sat In front of the … Continue reading
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