Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ENCOUNTER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE


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First Line: Fallen to what strange places
Last Line: And time moved on again, and we were parted.
Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The


Fallen to what strange places
Love travels pilgrim,
And into what deep dream
Descend these bottomless synthetic stairs?

Out of the void, impassable locked doors,
Clocks, telephones and sound-proof rooms
Proliferate like cancer in the mind
Interior prisons vaster than the dark.

There I the dreamer stood
Watching the handsome soldiers pass
In uniform of time, conscripts of place
Coming and going in the mind of God.

And there I met my love
Whom I had known before the stars were made;
We paused in recognition, and I said
'Carry this memory, an amulet against death'.

But he replied
'This is death's house, where love must learn to die'
And time moved on again, and we were parted.





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