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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SILENCE, by LUCY KENT
First Line: Out into the afternoon
Last Line: Whom silence made forever one.
Subject(s): Afternoon; Earth; Life; Silence; World
First Line: Out into the afternoon
Last Line: Whom silence made forever one.
Subject(s): Afternoon; Earth; Life; Silence; World
Out into the afternoon
We went pressed close beneath the sun
Conscious of life, feeling the beat
Of seconds yielding one by one.
The tremulous wonder of the earth
At pregnancy, filled all the world
And we could hear the gentle stir
Of hidden seeds as they uncurled.
We touched the earth; we felt the grass
Grow up through us as we lay prone;
We felt each feeding tree, its lust
For nourishment became our own.
We moved to rise from earth again
And lifted earth with us, so strong
Into our darkened hearts had pierced
The burning arrow of its song.
And hand in hand we struggled back
We dared not speak, when all was done,
Lest sound should separate us two
Whom silence made forever one.
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