Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TIME IS MOST UNQUIET, by TOONI GORDI


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TIME IS MOST UNQUIET, by                    
First Line: There we were sitting, like too-thin ghosts
Last Line: We were like ghosts awaiting some still doom.
Subject(s): Fear; Ghosts; Supernatural; Time


There we were sitting, like too-thin ghosts
Afraid to speak -- Afraid? -- We who had feared
Not anything were there afraid and still.
I gazed into the pregnant dark; and you --
You who had been the effervescent star,
The firmament to me -- you were quite still:
Still as the darkling sky, if skies be still.
I listened for the word I wanted there,
And heard the awful stillness . . . Was it you
Remembering? -- Forgetting? -- in a void?
Was it your touching voice I heard a while,
The voice that throbbed in trembling silver once?
But I was in a wonderment and hurt . . .
Was it pain I felt, or your still presence
Pressing into my spirit like a sword?
Yet all of the time -- and time is most unquiet --
We were like ghosts awaiting some still doom.





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