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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESERT FLOWERS, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living in a wide landscape are flowers Last Line: Of what the others never set eyes on. Subject(s): War | |||
Living in a wide landscape are flowers -- Rosenberg I only repeat what you were saying -- the shell and the hawk, every hour Are slaying men and jerboas, slaying the mind: but the body can fill the hungry flowers and dogs who cry words at nights, the most hostile things of all. But that is not new. Each time the night discards draperies on the eyes and leaves the mind awake I look each side of the door of sleep for the little coin it will take to buy the secret I shall not keep. I see men as trees suffering or confound the detail and the horizon. Lay the coin on my tongue and I will sing of what the others never set eyes on. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI by ROBERT HASS MITRAILLIATRICE by ERNEST HEMINGWAY RIPARTO D'ASSALTO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAR VOYEURS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES by ROBINSON JEFFERS MERSA by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS |
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