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Best Poems From
ERIC RATCLIFFE
(Aug 8,1918)
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Advent V
Step light and kindly by the ancient barrows,
hillforts and earthworks. They had their sanctuaries,
their groves, horses under purple cloudset
of their once-day twilights; the shredded hours
of history fused in their greybird lands
of cavern, stone and woodflame, bear and bison.
You tread upon minutes of their gravebeds,
you of tissue media, dead fashion sheets
and vaporous words; their falcon underthoughts
have marked their distances, yet memories
still enter graven in your deepest dreams,
their potency diminished, but strong enough
to stir the archimandrite in your head.
Eric Ratcliffe
Read more: history poems, purple poems, light poems, memory poems, horse poems, dream poems
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Advent VI
Earth-fainting but rising, returned to the light
through greenleaf arcadia, the gaunt elder guard
knew the first stories of the two-legged wanderers
by the scent of the firehills, in the air of the kingdoms.
By every late leaf of an old summer's autumn
there were always the children, in hope and glory,
always the children, rosettes of their days.
Eric Ratcliffe
Read more: autumn poems, children poems, summer poems, hope poems, light poems, rose poems, child poems
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Ashram
Thought was almost a wave-form,
an elusive violet
beamed from internal antennae;
western truths were without substance.
It was the way of non-violence;
the spirit was on their faces,
sun in their empty shoes
- the spinning wheel a symbol.
Eric Ratcliffe
Read more: sun poems
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Corpse
Uplever her night bones slowly,
expose them to lightning flash;
trowel her maid crystals gently,
under the burial ash.
Here clings her matrix mould,
worm-pierced, run with white root,
powder of blackwire hair
dry death on each living shoot.
The plough has revealed the message
of the faceless spine to the lark,
crushing her femurs, surrendered
as if to a ghost from the park
Eric Ratcliffe
Read more: hair poems, death poems, night poems, running poems
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