Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SEEKER, by CHARLES DAY JR.


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First Line: Do not feel pain for me because I go
Last Line: And I awake and rise to morning prayer.
Subject(s): Morning


Do not feel pain for me because I go
Into the night hung thick with fragile stars,
For I can see their dust sift on the scars
Of wind-swept prairies. Cottonwoods bend low;
Their leaves sing shadowed tunes. I hear the slow
Lamenting of a coyote. Slanting bars
Of white-hot star-sparks make pale scimitars
On drifting apple blooms that glint like snow.

But when the dawn comes silverly, I hear
The golden-freighted bumblebees fill air
Like thistledown before the wind, while near,
A timid rabbit huddles in despair.
A redbird's lilting song falls on my ear,
And I awake and rise to morning prayer.





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