Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REALIZATION, by LORETTA COWARD


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REALIZATION, by                    
First Line: Go swiftly, little brown rabbit
Last Line: Nor shatter your heart on stones.


Go swiftly, little brown rabbit,
nor shatter your heart on stones;
blind leaves scatter before you
from trees dumb as bones.

I who see your running
can tell you no more than they.
The old faith that linked us is dead
in the light of a wiser day

when rabbits no longer speak,
nor comfort lingers in leaves
that break from the trees in October
and shrivel under the trees,

blind leaves crumble beneath you,
dropped as old flesh from bones
... go swiftly
nor shatter your heart on stones.





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