Thursday, April 5, 2012
Response to Prompt#5 Poem
In imitation of William Wordsworth
A Day-Piece
The sky is overcast/
With a continuous cloud of marbled grey/
Heavy and dim, all brightened by the Sun/
Which through the mask is dimly seen/
A glowing orb, yeilding wan light/
So diluted by the clouds, that shadows/
of rocks, trees, and houses are thin and weak/
After a time a flash of light/
Startles a wanderer, deep in thought while he travels/
the lonesome road, with his eyes downcast/
taking in the dusty way; he glances upwards--/
There is a break in the clouds/
And the Sun graces the road and wanderer alike/
with golden rays/
As is floats in the clear blue heavens./
There, in glouriouslt turquoise he sails,/
Followed, seldom seen by sister Moon/
and her host of stars, unseen but ever viglilant/
Rolling in the sky beyond the Sun,/
all immeasurebly distant, yet so close/
All this can be seen in the clear vault/
surrounded by clouds that glow from the Sun/
At length the eye closes and the Mind/
Not unperturbed by the delight it feels/
Which settles into deep calm/
Is left to muse upon that joyous scene./
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Nice imitation of Wordsworth's poem, "A Night-Piece." You closely paralleled his poetic structure in your poem; I can see how you've altered words or phrases to recast the poem as your "sun" version while maintaining some syntactical and rhythmic elements of the original. Both poems manage to convey a sense of the majesty of nature, and emphasize the individual.
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