Jonathan ROBIN Poems

THE CORAL REEF


An Abysinnian sunlight’s mystery
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THE GOATHERD
O Shepherd do not follow down the steep
ravine the sprightly leaps of that wild buck.
On Menale’s slopes here do not try your luck,
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WHAT COMES AFTER?

WHAT HAPPENS AT THE CLOSING OF MY EYES?
HAPPENS in that sleep which all must know
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JOURNAL

PUT INTO LETTERED LINES OUR WORDS EACH DAY,
INTO a mode whose code Love understands,
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Intelligence with instinct should unite,
Nor compromise, nor seek presumptious reign,
To speed-link poet to true fancy's flight.
Reject this rede, all industry is vain.
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As grey cells wake from mist each mask
sun-kissed must fall as crystal clear
all may become. Once called to task,
heart answers finds, doubts disappear.
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Burning branch hisses
sighs on its ashes,
as candle kisses
goodnight to misses
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Heart and mind at different speeds
Ever run as women, men,
Affirm priorities and then
Regret few key to cue which feeds
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The poet must transcend both love and lust
to focus on eternal infinite
discovered both in tawdry boom and bust
and Nature's gifts, bright day and darkest night.
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I lived protected by high walls Time’s wit
Let stand a while, like pride before stored fall,
Ignoring purposely the fact that all
Vain structures tumble down, and bit by bit
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