Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STUBBORN BELIEVER, by BERTON BRALEY Poet's Biography First Line: I'm covered with countless contusions Last Line: And know in my heart I am right. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed | ||||||||
I'm covered with countless contusions, I'm bruised and I'm battered and hurt Where facts have bumped into illusions And knocked me about in the dirt. Yet, spite of these countless collisions In which, to the Realist's view, The facts get the best of the visions, I go on believing them true. I've suffered a deal of deceiving, I've had my faith often betrayed, And yet I will go on believing, My faith remains still unafraid. And though I seem blind and mistaken To those whom realities rule, I hold to my visions unshaken I'll go right on being a fool! By cold heavy fact I am battered, By ugly, material things, But somehow my soul is unshattered, My spirit still flies upon wings. Though life and its wounds set me grieving And put my illusions to flight I still shall go right on believing And know in my heart I am right. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNHOLY SONNET 4 by MARK JARMAN QUIA ABSURDUM by ROBINSON JEFFERS GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET TO FORTUNE by LUCY AIKEN JONATHAN EDWARDS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS by ROBERT LOWELL RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION by MINA LOY |
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