Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Sunday, June 22, 2008

One Star Fell and Another..., By Conrad Aiken


One star fell and another as we walked.
Lifting his hand towards the west, he said----
How prodigal that sky is of its stars!
They fall and fall, and still the sky is sky.
Two more have gone,
but heaven is heaven still.

Then let us not be precious of our thought,
Nor of our words,
nor hoard them up as though
We thought our minds a heaven which might change
And lose its virtue,
when the word had fallen.
Let us be prodigal, as heaven is:
Lose what we lose,
and give what we may give,
--Ourselves are still the same.
Lost you a planet--?Is Saturn gone
Then let him take his rings
Into the Limbo of forgotten things.

O little foplings of the pride of mind,
Who wrap the phrase in lavender,and keep it
In order to display it: and you, who save our loves
As if we had not worlds of love enough--!

Let us be reckless of our words and worlds,
And spend them freely as the tree his leaves;
And give them where the giving is most blest.
What should we save them for,--a night of frost?
. . .All lost for nothing, and ourselves a ghost.

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3 comments:

  1. I love poetry. When I was much younger I would check books of poetry out of the library and carry then with me every place I went and read them on every opportunity. When asked what I was reading, I would tell them a book of poetry by such and such. I would get looks like I was some sort of freak. I still love my poetry and the internet where I have been able to connect with so many other "Freaks" like myself. ... lol

    Wishing you a wonderful week.

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  2. wow! Yes, let's. Recklessly yours, Merita

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  3. Thanks. I have been looking for this poem for a while -- I remembered it from long ago. Thanks so much for sharing it, so I could find it again to treasure.

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