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"Homage to Emily Dickinson" 7 Poems
by George Northrup
Homage to Emily Dickinson (ii)
Cloud and sun contend
Across the flustered Sky.
Spring forgives the winter,
Resolves—another try.
Spasm sad or joyous leaps
Enchanted from this—Hymnal.
Our liturgy repeats—
The daily and the annual.
Homage to Emily Dickinson (vi)
Grief—the uninvited Guest
We suffer—awkwardly—
Too ignorant of what
A constant Friend she'll be.
Through all her morbid chatter,
Repetitious with self care—
We listen till we can
Admit—Who—isn't there
Bending near at Resolution
She kisses fevered head—
Then waking from—the Trance—we know
Just how to miss the dead.
Homage to Emily Dickinson (vii)
Thunder of your Scorn
Remembered, jolts the bed—
Trespass trembles wary heart,
Creases weary head.
Foreswearing counter crimes
Itself is not the peace—
My Candle seeks the Needle
To sew—wings upon this Beast.
Homage to Emily Dickinson (viii)
Clouds—dark billowed props
For Magic in the skies—
Silken threads of raindrops,
Fiery Surprise!
Tremor in the glitter—
What next? A breathless Pause—
Across the Amphitheater—
Thunderous applause.
Homage to Emily Dickinson (x)
Showers splash the brimming lake
As much as thirsty farm—
From mountain springs—may drink
The cougar—or the fawn.
The sun warms Anchorites
And highwaymen the same.
It lights the streets of Paris
And valleys with—no Name.
Fertile soil holds—both weeds
And corn indifferently.
Does Nature know—what we do not
Of—Equanimity?
Homage to Emily Dickinson (xiii)
Art—is the Breeze that blows
Across the Meadow brain—
A spring that Bubbles--through the Crust—
When field was begging rain.
Art—is the bugle of the Nerves—
A Twinkle in the Dome,
The day's distracting Cumulus
We Followed far from home.
Homage to Emily Dickinson (xvi)
Sunlight tumbles—through the trees—
Buttering the lawn.
Summoned—Breezes soar in flight
Welcoming—of Dawn.
When Sunset weeps its silent song
And glides below the sky—
Oceans—photograph the scene—
Forests nod—good day.
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