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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUERY FROM AN ARTIST, by NEVIN GREEN
First Line: Why try the skies?
Last Line: Ah men, were ships and motors not enough?
Subject(s): Art & Artists
First Line: Why try the skies?
Last Line: Ah men, were ships and motors not enough?
Subject(s): Art & Artists
Why try the skies?
The plains are conquered
And the deep green valleys scaled;
The rivers bridged with clean, majestic steel.
Beneath the city streets
The subways and the lighted trains
Fill tunnels with their speeding roar.
The sky seemed infinite and sweet.
Oh why these dirigibles, these planes?
The sunset and the evening glow
Across the violet, wooded hills
Is marred by that most formidable array of planes.
That boundless, cool blue heaven
Was meant for eagles, and the racing geese;
The purple shadowed haze, for artists' palette.
Ah men, were ships and motors not enough?
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