Today's poem is by Stephen Frech
Speed Forth the Darkness
There is time enough
in the ruins, the arch still holds.
A tree has taken root
among the stones.The oracle bones
in fragments
now predict
the still uncertain future.We are fishermen
drawing in our nets
from calm waters,
oracles of what is.Why hurry, darkness?
We have nets to mend,
catch to sort,
and a line from a poem I love
is playing over and over again in my head.
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Copyright © 2021 Stephen Frech All rights reserved
from Into Night's Tent
River Glass Books
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission
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