Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHERE BODIES GAIN A SOUL ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG


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WHERE BODIES GAIN A SOUL ...., by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It needs a spark or two of gold before
Last Line: And bodies gain a soul and find a man!
Subject(s): Bodies; Soul


It needs a spark or two of gold before
The body can revive sufficient heat
To lift the head and give accustomed feet
The impetus to move beyond a chore;
Then having dined on plenty to the core
And saved the morrow from the old retreat,
And having heard its blood return, repeat
A summons on the drum and on the door,

Its servitude can rise and go the way
Of crooked roads outside its habitude,
And turn a key upon the cell so gray
With webs privation spun to multitude --
And urge its limbs to where horizons span,
And bodies gain a soul and find a man!





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