Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Lightning; Water Lilies

Lightning; Water Lilies Poems by Philip Arnold Lightning A warm breeze rummages through the valley, finding so little left--our two bodies and the calamity of mud rising along the thick ankles of trees. So much hope rising--but how things come back like the thunderclap of lightning-a huge ball slammed against the heart of the world--swift, so full of the violence of the sky, so much like the sound of creation. Water Lilies Beginning by afternoon, the water lilies drift off, make room for themselves beneath the new sun. What's worth doing is worth doing well, but how far have you gone just drifting through the cool waters, gliding along the dark walls of some unfamiliar pond? To be honest, the lilies don't really swim away. Caught below water in a tangle of stems, one can go only as far as another one gives. Maybe you know this already, maybe you've already disappeared inte the pond, drifted beneath the pinkish-white flowers so the water touches you everywhere. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Lightning; Water Lilies

Appalachian Review , Volume 23 (3) – Jan 8, 1995

Loading next page...
 
/lp/university-of-north-carolina-press/lightning-water-lilies-lM0pZSGlOc

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Copyright
Copyright © Berea College
ISSN
1940-5081
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Poems by Philip Arnold Lightning A warm breeze rummages through the valley, finding so little left--our two bodies and the calamity of mud rising along the thick ankles of trees. So much hope rising--but how things come back like the thunderclap of lightning-a huge ball slammed against the heart of the world--swift, so full of the violence of the sky, so much like the sound of creation. Water Lilies Beginning by afternoon, the water lilies drift off, make room for themselves beneath the new sun. What's worth doing is worth doing well, but how far have you gone just drifting through the cool waters, gliding along the dark walls of some unfamiliar pond? To be honest, the lilies don't really swim away. Caught below water in a tangle of stems, one can go only as far as another one gives. Maybe you know this already, maybe you've already disappeared inte the pond, drifted beneath the pinkish-white flowers so the water touches you everywhere.

Journal

Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1995

There are no references for this article.