It is the movement that incites the form,
discovered as a downward rapture--yes,
it is the movement that delights the form,
sustained by its own velocity.And yet
...
My Lord recalls Ferrara?How walls
rise out of water yet to recede
identically
into it, as if
...
Secret they are, sealed, annealed, and brainless
And solitary as Dickens said, but
They have something to say: that there is more
...
The writer is John Ruskin, on his wedding journey in Venice.
My dearest father, it is the year's First Day,
Yet so like the Last, in Venice, no one
Could tell this birth from the lees.
...
Like Most Revelations
It is the movement that incites the form,
discovered as a downward rapture--yes,
it is the movement that delights the form,
sustained by its own velocity.And yet
it is the movement that delays the form
while darkness slows and encumbers; in fact
it is the movement that betrays the form,
baffled in such toils of ease, until
it is the movement that deceives the form,
beguiling our attention--we supposed
it is the movement that achieves the form.
Were we mistaken?What does it matter if
it is the movement that negates the form?
Even though we give (give up) ourselves
to this mortal process of continuing,
it is the movement that creates the form.
Mr. Richard Howard is not only a good poet, but also a well known Music Composer and a Music Conductor! It is unfortunate that his earlier poems are not available for the readers who have not read them as yet! With best wishes, -Raj Nandy New Delhi India
Well now, aren't them daisies fancy?