Hugh Cobb Poems

1. Celestial Delight

On a moonless night
stars enter sky through clouds:
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Staring deeply into darkness's heart,
reflected back in mirror'd eyes
can give one's conscience a nasty start
that may turn out neither well nor wise:
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Yes, it's Christmas once again:
Commercial dance nearly done
only morning-after sales left,
unless of course you're Orthodox
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Light glimmers off the gold nib
of my fountain pen
dances 'cross my eyes:
lightning in miniature.
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Standing on a ledge ten stories up
wind rips at clothing & flesh,
a tiger's claws. Hair blown to hell.
None of it matters at all.
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When wonders burst intact upon the eye
demanding focus and attention full:
of mind and will and spirit, too, they fly
into conscious awareness, where they gently pull
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i.

lacking all rhyme or reason
skating through darkness
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Gazing at th'Aegean,
I observe dolphins at play:
bursting from a wine-dark sea,
an explosion of water & light
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Too oft in time
it seems a crime
to open up one's heart.
Comes into play
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Should all man's exertions and efforts come to naught
(as all are wont to do in time's vast flow)
crumbled with ages, fallen 'neath the sea, or so
totally lost through numerous means, existence fraught
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