• Featured Links

  • Twitter Updates

  • Recent Comments

  • Post Categories

  • Archives

  • Meta

  • Les Unmasked

  • Random Quote

    “Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.”

    —Henry Tuckerman
  • « | Home | »

    Elsewhere

    By Lester | June 3, 2009

    There was an age in which this brown field,
    the brown, veiny trees beyond,
    the wind above like unbreaking surf,

    could lure my feet
    across the spongy soil
    its brittle, weedy carpet,

    into the stippled shadows
    where the fellowship of empty branches
    could brim me over
    with shimmering melancholy.

    However,
    I am expected elsewhere,

    and so a paler shade of feeling
    must sustain.
     
     
    —Lester Smith
     
     
    (Originally appeared in Woud You Dance?)

    Bookmark and Share
    Post to Twitter

    Topics: Sample Poems | 1 Comment »

    One Response to “Elsewhere”

    1. My Week of Tweets « LesterSmith.com Says:
      June 5th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

      [...] A site by and about a poet, game designer, and Web coder. « Elsewhere » Home [...]

    Comments