Tender and tremulous green of leaves
Turned up by the wind,
Twanging among the vines-
Wind in the grass
Blowing a clear path
For the new-stripped soul to pass…
The naked soul in the sunlight…
Like a wisp of smoke in the sunlight
On the hill-side shimmering.
Dance light on the wind, little soul,
Like a thistle-down floating
Over the butterflies
And the lumbering bees…
Come away from that tree
And its shadow grey as a stone…
Bathe in the pools of light
On the hillside shimmering-
Shining and wetted and warm in the sun-spray falling like golden rain-
But do not linger and look
At that bleak thing under the tree.
Dispossessed
Lola Ridge
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Poem topics: away, dance, green, rain, sun, tender, grass, shadow, clear, warm, golden, stone, shining, light, tree, sunlight, wind, soul, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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