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THE GIVEN MOMENT - Seán Street (U.K.)



THE GIVEN MOMENT

 

-         Seán Street (U.K.)

 

i

Crows in the high beech

watch August pass in late air

as we hope for grace

but if/when we reach morning                

it will not be when but if

 

ii

A predestined thing

when words fall into a poem’s line

each new gift given

Colour is matter striving

to become light through glass

 

iii

A gull between trees

one blue sky intensity

two epiphanies

and the box of a poem

too paltry to contain them.

 

iv

As the full moon moved

behind the rooftops you called

me -  had you not then

how could I have watched darkness

take empty streets out of sight

 

 

v

The garden - autumn

and here the obsidian

Buddha you gave me

with only the wood smoke’s scent

spelling the weary word Time

 

vi

A single leaf fell

as a thread once while sewing

from a mother’s hand

everywhere given moments

at any given moment

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