Beyond The Ray

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Beyond The Ray


Poem 4

Write a poem of 16 to 24 lines using couplets (2 line stanzas). Make use of ambiguity within this poem. Allow for more than one interpretation.


What lies beyond the ray?
Beyond the making of day.

Is there more to this thing
That causes the cock to sing?

What might there be that light
Would look upon for light?

The depth of truth is relative
So, does light only grieve

Or maybe he stands proud?
At the top, he could be loud.

But light knows of greater than he,
For at the hour he fades humbly

To give the spot to a lesser man,
Day by day he does it by plan,

Whose? Light and light alone knows
But HE must glow more that he glows.

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WordSlinger commented on Beyond The Ray

05-02-2010

Good write, just a bit bumpy, For at the hour he fades humbly, can be tweaked ty WS

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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