Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE INVISIBLE SPECTRUM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE


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First Line: Learn, if I dare, the order of the wind
Last Line: Dreams not ours.
Subject(s): Graves; Love; Silence; Tombs; Tombstones


Learn, if I dare, the order of the wind,
Fire, tempest and the sea.
Learn if I dare into what mode of being
The leaf falls from the tree.

Everywhere
There are holes in the air,
Graves open to receive us,

After the seventh colour
And before the first
Lies darkness.

Beyond sound, silence
Audible to bats
And deep-sea fish that feel the throb of waves,

Beyond sense, the spinning spheres,
Atoms and stars
That weave our lives.

Lovers seek sanctuary
In the abyss
From which they fly,

For in love's depths we sound
The void
Beyond mortality

And through our sleep
Move latent powers
Strange as nebulae,
Dreams not ours.





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