Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MAKER OF THE SONGS, by HAZEL HALL


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MAKER OF THE SONGS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take strands of speech, faded and broken
Last Line: Of glittered breath that you have known.
Variant Title(s): Maker Of Songs
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Songs


Take strands of speech, faded and broken;
Tear them to pieces, word from word,
Then take the ravelled shreds and dye them
With meanings that were never heard.

Place them across the loom. Let wind-shapes
And sunlight come in at the door,
Or let the radiance of raining
Move in silver on the floor.

And sit you quiet in the shadow
Before the subtly idle strands.
Silence, a cloak, will weigh your shoulder;
Silence, a sorrow, fill your hands.

Yet there shall come the stirring . . . Weaver,
Weave well and not with words alone;
Weave through the pattern every fragment
Of glittered breath that you have known.





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