Hi Grassy (again),
Very visual and these lines in particular:
> before the blue-green plane side-slips and dips
> through dreams, a fading pulse of fevered hues.
>
> The wound of slanting steel still bleeds,still bleeds;
> the flight of sun is done. The light recedes.
are brilliant! You do have a way with a sonnet, something I aspire to, but
haven't had the courage to try...
CW, Mary :O)
--- grasshopper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The Dying of the Day
>
> Above his head the helicopter blades
> beat like a palpitating heart. He sees
> veridian and emerald, deep shades,
> the spine of jungle, leopard-lithe, as trees
> arch down to glinting sea, with boats like toys,
> so clear and close, he could stretch out his hand
> and touch the bobbing gulls,the warning buoys,
> dwarf waves that wash a miniature of land,
>
> and further out grey slippers of great ships
> with friendly guns and neat pale dolls of crews,
> before the blue-green plane side-slips and dips
> through dreams, a fading pulse of fevered hues.
>
> The wound of slanting steel still bleeds,still bleeds;
> the flight of sun is done. The light recedes.
>
> grasshopper
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