Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FIRST READER, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrel-backed / with inky letters / bent halfway round / the galloping pony | ||||||||
Sorrel-backed With inky letters Bent halfway round The galloping pony: Black on the moon: Bright tin bucket With star-dressed holes Elaborately empierced To temper a scholar's Sweating meal: At dead center Of the wood to school An angry creek Butted stepstones: My brother's hand Accepting mine Steering me over: In my pocket cajoling Plumgranny distilling Seiged perfume: Then the long room And chanting voices Word and willow stick: Lout's leer, Master's ease: The levied melon Promptly rescinded To Master's keep: Usurper swinged: O the flaring, Glaring, daring: Seemly the stripes Reaver wearing After the switching: Hands twitching: The class rose And chanted once more: Our devoirs done The creek's rote Let us home: My book, filched, Sailed on the water: One love apple Was not enough: The ante had been upped. At cockshut time, Between and between, Dark Pony came galloping: At the far edge Of star-filled night Shone the towers Of Sleepytown: Lamps winking: Barely reached before The advent of terror. http://www.wlu.edu/~shenano | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLOOD SEED by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH GRANGER'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH IN MEMORIAM by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH LESSONS by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH MUSIC by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH PLOUGHING by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH STORY by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH TENANTRY by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH THE CICADA by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF J.L. MCDOWELL, M.D. (MOUNTAIN DOCTOR), 1970 by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH |
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