Arthur Seymour John Tessimond Dark Poems

  • 1.
    The sun, a heavy spider, spins in the thirsty sky.
    The wind hides under cactus leaves, in doorway corners. Only the wry

    Small shadow accompanies Hamlet-Petrouchka's march - the slight
    ...
  • 2.
    Serrations of chimneys
    Stone-black perforate
    Velvet-black dark.
    A tree coils in core of darkness.
    ...
  • 3.
    The tube lift mounts,
    sap in a stem,
    And blossoms its load,
    a black, untidy rose.
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  • 4.
    The birch tree in winter
    Leaning over the secret pool
    Is Narcissus in love
    With the slight white branches,
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  • 5.
    This is not Love, perhaps,
    Love that lays down its life,
    that many waters cannot quench,
    nor the floods drown,
    ...
Total 5 Dark Poems by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

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