Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EAGLE SONNETS: 3, by CLEMENT WOOD


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EAGLE SONNETS: 3, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We hear the ancients say that man is issue
Last Line: Each part will be too hard at work to hear it.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


We hear the ancients say that man is issue
Of godhood -- spirit breathed into the dust.
Man is a favored, roving bud of tissue,
Fed on the countless blossoms of earth's crust.
He is a child of fruit and sturdy grain;
Of bird and beast his sinews have been knit.
These gave the stuff for body and for brain:
If they are godhood, he is spawn of it.
And though old Gabriel split his cheeks with blowing,
No part of us shall rise in that last day:
Within uncounted lives we shall be growing,
Bird in the bird, and clay within the clay.
If he should blow, to clothe again my spirit,
Each part will be too hard at work to hear it.





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