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05/14/17: Autumn Sonnet #3 (Sarton)

May 14, 2017 / admin / Poetry Corner

Autumn Sonnet #3       By May Sarton

 

I wake to gentle mist over the meadow

The chilling atmosphere before sunrise

Where half my world lies still asleep in shadow

And half is touched awake as if by eyes.

Sparse yellow leaves high in the air are struck

To sudden flame as the first rays break through

And all the brightness gathers to that mark,

While floating in the dim light far below

A monarch settles on an autumn crocus

For one last drink before impending flight.

The slow pulse of the wings brings into focus

The autumn scene and all its dark and bright,

And suddenly the granite rock is split

As sun lights up exactly half of it.

 

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