Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AFTER STORM, by LOLA RIDGE


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First Line: Was there a wind?
Last Line: About a dream impaled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Storms


Was there a wind?
Tap . . . . . tap . . .
Night pads upon the snow
With moccasined feet,
And it is still . . . . so still . . .
An eagle's feather
Might fall like a stone.

Could there have been a storm,
Mad-tossing golden mane on the neck of the wind --
Tearing up the sky, loose-flapping like a tent about the ice-capped stars?

Cool, sheer and motionless,
The frosted pines
Are jewelled with a million flaming points,
That fling their beauty up in long white sheaves
Till they catch hands with stars.
Could there have been a wind
That haled them by the hair,
And blinding
Blue-forked
Flowers of the lightning
In their leaves?

Tap . . . . tap . . .
Slow-ticking centuries . . .
Soft as bare feet upon the snow . . .
Faint . . . . lulling as heard rain
upon heaped leaves . . .
So silence builds her wall
about a dream impaled.





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