Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, POET'S COMMONPLACE, by HENRY HARRISON


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POET'S COMMONPLACE, by                    
First Line: Impersonally I recognize the truth
Last Line: ...The fallen leaf remembers autumn's bough!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


Impersonally I recognize the truth:
That you are sister to futility
And I the brother of a dream. For me
There is no cowardly retreat to Youth,
Forgetting you in flip romancing. This
The burden I must carry: that my grief
Will find rebirth in every Spring's first leaf,
The earth reechoing a hallowed kiss.

My feelings are the poet's commonplace.
I hurled my heart against a foreign wall:
I lost. O, there is nothing left at all
But memory of your hands, your words, your face.
How shall I feel, say, twenty months from now?
...The fallen leaf remembers Autumn's bough!




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