The Lonely Land Poem by Arthur James Marshall Smith

The Lonely Land



Cedar and jagged fir
uplift sharp barbs
against the gray
and cloud-piled sky;
and in the bay
blown spume and windrift
and thin, bitter spray
snap
at the whirling sky;
and the pine trees
lean one way.

A wild duck calls
to her mate,
and the ragged
and passionate tones
stagger and fall,
and recover,
and stagger and fall,
on these stones —
are lost
in the lapping of water
on smooth, flat stones.
This is a beauty
of dissonance,
this resonance
of stony strand,
this smoky cry
curled over a black pine
like a broken
and wind-battered branch
when the wind
bends the tops of the pines
and curdles the sky
from the north.

This is the beauty
of strength
broken by strength
and still strong.

Monday, February 9, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: lonely
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Edward Kofi Louis 09 February 2015

Nice piece of work. Thanks for sharing this poem with us. E.K.L.

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