A Poem about Light
I was going through my third book, Bending the Branch, which was first published in 1983, and found this small love poem. I think this is a good place to start the new year. I've always liked the poem, but I'd forgotten about it, not having read the book in a number of years.
POEM ABOUT LIGHT
You first came to me
as light across fields,
light from a seed,
light from inside the body
And I knew this life
is but a moment of light
on earth: bloom
that gives itself entirely to the seed.
There are places I return to
to call all the particles of light
up into the form of beauty;
when you return, the light
will stand inside me
like a tree.
(Copyright Allan Cooper, 1983, 2008)
POEM ABOUT LIGHT
You first came to me
as light across fields,
light from a seed,
light from inside the body
And I knew this life
is but a moment of light
on earth: bloom
that gives itself entirely to the seed.
There are places I return to
to call all the particles of light
up into the form of beauty;
when you return, the light
will stand inside me
like a tree.
(Copyright Allan Cooper, 1983, 2008)
posted by Al Cooper at 9:38 AM
2 Comments:
great poem indeed -- nice weaving together of love, absence, and longing. i recall it from long ago -- it must have been in "the pearl inside the body" (whose title is echoed in this poem)
Lovely poem ~ the last line has lodged itself inside of me - it is such a beautiful image.
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