Lights
Twinkle
Upon the sea of cloud
Like ships approaching shore.
Driven by dreams,
Maps of silver journeys
Strike a rhythm
Of wheeling home to you.
Dawn fells the fog
And behold!
The wakened mountain stands
Formidable, unscalable.
Ah, to dream once again,
To float to you,
Not in the stark clarity of day,
But on the moon’s silvery shadow.
This double meaning poem was inspired by a foggy view of the Hudson Valley near my home.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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"Lights
Twinkle
Upon the sea of cloud"
I love this imagery, great write, Betty!
Erin
:)