("dive for dreams...")

Poetry for June 1952

VOL. LXXX NO. 111

FOUNDED 1912 BY HARRIET MONROS

five poems

dive for dreams

dive for dreams

or a slogan may topple you

(trees are their roots

and wind is wind)

trust your heart

if the seas catch fire

(and live by love

though the stars walk backward)

honour the past

but welcome the future

(and dance your death

away at this wedding)

never mind a world

with its villains or heroes

(for god likes girls

and tomorrow and the earth )

all nearness pauses, while a star can grow

all nearness pauses, while a star can grow

all distance breathes a final dream of bells;

perfectly outlined against afterglow

are all amazing the and peaceful hills

(not where not here but neither's blue most both)

and history immeasurably is

wealthier by a single sweet day's death:

as not imagined secrecies comprise

goldenly huge whole the upfloating moon.

Time's a strange fellow;

more he gives than takes

(and he takes all) nor any marvel finds