Selected Poems 1943-1966 by Philip Lamantia

Selected Poems 1943-1966 by Philip Lamantia

Author:Philip Lamantia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-13T16:00:00+00:00


MORNING LIGHT SONG

RED DAWN clouds coming up ! the heavens proclaim you, Absolute God

I claim the glory, in you, of singing to you this morning

For I am coming out of myself and Go to you, Lord of the Morning Light

For what’s a singer worth if he can’t talk to you, My God of Light ?

These lines should grow like trees to tie around yr Crown of the Sky

These words should be strong like those of the ancient makers,

O poet of poets

Ancient deity of the poem —

Here’s spindle tongue of morning riding the flushes of NIGHT

Here’s gigantic ode of the sky about to turn on the fruits of my lyre

Here’s Welcome Cry from heart of the womb of words, — Hail, Queen of Night!

Who giveth birth to the Morning Star, Here’s the quiet cry of stars broken among crockery

Here’s the spoon of sudden birds wheeling the rains of Zeus

Here’s the worshipping Eye of my soul stinging the heavens

Here’s Charmed Bird, zepher of High Crags — jugs of the divine poem

As it weaves terrestial spaces, overturning tombs, breaking hymens

From where cometh this first cry

that my hands go into for the wresting of words

Here’s my chant to you, Morning of Mornings, God of gods, light of light

Here’s your singer let loose into the sky of your heaven

For we have come howling and screaming and wailing and I come SINGING

To You who giveth forth the song of songs that I am reborn from its opulence

That I hold converse with your fantasy That I am your beauty

NOT OF THIS WORLD and bring to nothing all that would stop me

From flying straight to your heart whose rays conduct me to the SONG!



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