Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MIRAGE, by DOROTHY CRUIKSHANK



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MIRAGE, by                    
First Line: Here with the ocean in front of me
Last Line: Like eyes that I knew in the long ago.
Subject(s): Mirages


Here with the ocean in front of me,
Mile upon mile of vivid blue,
Strange that the desert is all I see,
Strange that the sand is all I rue.

Sky touching sea in an even line
How can one look at the rim of the world,
And see instead the incarnadine
Flag of the mountain sun unfurled?

So oftentimes when I look in your eyes
Where black fires smoulder and sudden glow,
They are strangely blue and merry and wise
Like eyes that I knew in the long ago.





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