To fight aloud, is very brave - 
But gallanter, I know
Who charge within the bosom
The Calvalry of Woe - 

Who win, and nations do not see - 
Who fall - and none observe - 
Whose dying eyes, no Country
Regards with patriot love - 

We trust, in plumed procession
For such, the Angels go -
Rank after Rank, with even feet -
And Uniforms of snow.

satya - 4/17/2017, 1:25:49 PM

A Fuller Tune

I shall keep singing!
Birds will pass me
On their way to Yellower Climes?

Each?with a Robin's expectation?
I?with my Redbreast?
And my Rhymes?

Late?when I take my place in summer?
But?I shall bring a fuller tune?

Vespers?are sweeter than Matins?Signor?
Morning?only the seed of Noon?

satya - 4/19/2017, 10:21:30 PM

Book

There is no frigate like a book 
To take us lands away, 
Nor any coursers like a page 
Of prancing poetry. 
This traverse may the poorest take 
Without oppress of toll; 
How frugal is the chariot 
That bears a human soul!

A frigate is a fast ship. A courser is a fast horse.

satya - 4/19/2017, 10:21:45 PM

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satya - 4/19/2017, 10:22:13 PM

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satya - 4/19/2017, 10:26:27 PM

A gorgeous one


"Unto Me?" I do not know you -
Where may be your House? 

"I am Jesus - Late of Judea -
Now-of Paradise" -

Wagons-have you-to convey me? 
This is far from Thence-

"Arms of Mine-sufficient Phaeton- 
Trust Omnipotence"-

I am spotted-"I am Pardon"-
I am small-"The Least 
Is esteemed in Heaven the Chiefest-
Occupy my House"-

satya - 4/19/2017, 10:30:08 PM

To the admiring bog


I?m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there?s a pair of us!
Don?t tell! they?d advertise - you know!

How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one?s name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!

satya - 4/19/2017, 10:30:20 PM

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satya - 4/19/2017, 10:31:22 PM

livelong

During her time period "livelong" implies how am I going to live this dreary time period especially it seem so long. So livelong june means all - this dreary - summer long

satya - 4/19/2017, 10:32:34 PM

Woman and a wife


She rose to his requirement, dropped	
The playthings of her life	
To take the honorable work	
Of woman and of wife.	
  
If aught she missed in her new day	
Of amplitude, or awe,	
Or first prospective, or the gold	
In using wore away,	
  
It lay unmentioned, as the sea	
Develops pearl and weed,
But only to himself is known	
The fathoms they abide.

satya - 4/20/2017, 12:57:51 PM

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a light, open, four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.

satya - 4/20/2017, 12:58:39 PM

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satya - 4/20/2017, 1:02:55 PM

An image of Phaeton

satya - 6/16/2017, 8:41:19 AM

We grow accustomed to the Dark

We grow accustomed to the Dark - 
When light is put away - 
As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp
To witness her Goodbye - 

A Moment - We uncertain step
For newness of the night - 
Then - fit our Vision to the Dark - 
And meet the Road - erect - 

And so of larger - Darknesses - 
Those Evenings of the Brain - 
When not a Moon disclose a sign - 
Or Star - come out - within - 

The Bravest - grope a little - 
And sometimes hit a Tree
Directly in the Forehead - 
But as they learn to see - 

Either the Darkness alters - 
Or something in the sight
Adjusts itself to Midnight - 
And Life steps almost straight. 

satya - 6/16/2017, 8:46:47 AM

A brief explanation

She is dense with intellect. Every time I figure out one of her poems it is a delight. They are not as abstract as they appear to the first sight. if not would they be delightful as a new bride!

This starts off with a neighbor seeing off lit by a night lamp. In stanza 2 as you walk away you will slowly adjust to the darkness. It took, my dull mind, substantial minutes to see the second stanza as a continuation of the first.

In the third she wonders how about our own brain not knowing directions in darkness and comparing in the same breath to the physical signs of darkness, the moon the star.

Then the physical and the mental are melded as one to say in life we get to learn or we adjust and to me, life teaches us, some times without choice.

Beautiful to the last drop!

satya - 6/16/2017, 8:55:48 AM

Not to mention our ability to lead with failures

Not to mention our ability to lead with failures