Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EVENING CLOUDS, by PAUL FORT


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EVENING CLOUDS, by                    
First Line: The hour has made transparent mountains of ruddy cloud. Upon
Last Line: Grain are bowed in slumber, and the broad moon awakes.
Subject(s): Clouds; Evening; Sunset; Twilight


The hour has made transparent mountains of ruddy cloud. Upon the fruitful plain
there is no fairer hour. Dissolving topaz clouds let fall a golden shower. The
evening wind, pursues, and guides them home again.

The setting sun strikes in their flight bright birds, all the birds of the day,
and 'tis an ardent and a golden rain glancing across the surge of gently swaying
grain.

The setting sun and the wind have fused their charms divine, in twilight's
crucible colour and scent combine.

Far from the dying sun, through depths of stainless air, an Oriental pageant
glides. Long, bleeding rubies deck an emperor beneath the balancing of tall,
gold parasols. Behind, a mighty people, clothed all in violet pale, sway at the
tips of slender golden wands lanterns whereon are limned, in characters of
silver, the poppies of sleep.

Have you seen the talons of the Night go past? In the wind she also was of gold.
. . . And already the birds are sleeping on the plain, the ruddy heads of the
grain are bowed in slumber, and the broad moon awakes.





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