Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OUT OF EARTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY


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OUT OF EARTH, by                    
First Line: Pattern the clouds for a moment
Last Line: A thorn in the heel of death.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Heaven; Hell; Nature; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Paradise


Pattern the clouds for a moment
This way or that,
And Heaven or Hell is the difference;
One breath more or less
And a dream slips back into night
Or leaps into song everlasting.
I know that the petals of a violet
Can push the skies apart;
I know that the grass gives the wind its importance,
The grass and the leaves,
Small things out of earth and the past;
And I, this flesh, this bit of remembering,
I will place a word in the lips of tomorrow,
A thorn in the heel of death.





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