Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SHADOWS, by ARTHUR F. KRAMER


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SHADOWS, by                    
First Line: Shadows walk the world and leave a stain
Last Line: Till darkness drops upon them and they die.
Subject(s): Shadows


Shadows walk the world and leave a stain
that eats away the colors of the sun
and darkens the hours that pass beneath it. Run
though life may on swift time, it cannot gain
bright sunlight anywhere -- shadows remain
immanent, folded into living hearts -- begun
before first breath -- expanding with hard-won
sight and ever rise higher to constrain
all into shadow that was before God cleft the night
and set the world to spinning down the sky,
then drew apart to let the sun be bright
a while, and living hearts be lifted high
in little passing moments of delight
till darkness drops upon them and they die.





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