Poem Of The Month: August 2014
For August's Poem of the Month, I have chosen the poem 'From the Coast' by Richard W. Halperin .
It is taken from his collection Pink, Ochre, Yellow.
FROM THE COAST
In the Mill Cove Gallery, Beara Peninsula
All poems end in the sea
No matter what the lines say.
This is stated, this is implied, or neither.
Something of blue, something of green.
Something of light, something of pain.
Something sinister and unpunished, like sleep.
A mother who devours her young, or loves them, or both.
Who sometimes forgives them.
Who sometimes is forgiven by them, but that is rarer.
Who washes without purpose as she breathes.
Nothing ends – this the Greeks knew is tragedy.
Threads cut wander.
The train went on without me.
Hey, mister, there’s no train in that picture.
There is a train
in every picture.
Copyright © Richard W. Halperin 2014
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of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988
to be identified as the author of this work.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data.
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