Advice: A Book of Poems

<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</SPAN></span> <h2 class="nobreak">YOUNG POET</h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">The grinning clamour on your face</div> <div class="verse">Dies abruptly, for moments:</div> <div class="verse">Boldness and timidity</div> <div class="verse">Are swept, transfigured, against each other.</div> <div class="verse">But the glistening turmoil</div> <div class="verse">Once more spurns itself with jests</div> <div class="verse">That light its troubled hands.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse">When too much pain has lowered</div> <div class="verse">The eyelids of your mood,</div> <div class="verse">A peaceful humour wraps your face.</div> <div class="verse">You are like an old man</div> <div class="verse">Watching children fly from his fingertips.</div> <div class="verse">In your kirtle of borrowed skies</div> <div class="verse">You find a sorrow luring your horizons</div> <div class="verse">Into hesitating brightness....</div> <div class="verse">When night remembers, you have straightened</div> <div class="verse">Into stealthy, angry calmness</div> <div class="verse">Fingering it first, unsent arrow.</div> </div></div> </div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />