Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EXALTATION, by KURT HEYNICKE


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EXALTATION, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lift your heart in flooding silence
Last Line: We wait as a deer waits to meet the moon at night.


Lift your heart in flooding silence;
hours nod in shadow, evening-eyed.
Lift your faces toward the lighted sky.
Stars, not hearts, are throbbing in our breasts.

Through the gates of evening we are guided home
on bright feet under a golden dome,
the world wanders, drunk with ecstasy.

We are treading on the path of stars,
from the god-ploughed sod a tree springs toward the light:
through the leafage gleam a thousand fruits.

We dream as coral dream in a slow sea.
We wait as a deer waits to meet the moon at night.





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