1940, 1970 and Today – plus other poems - 2. Messenger of the Morn

In these I feel both yearning and the pulse of life. Poems 4 and 5 perfectly balance number 3, like moon to sun. 

38 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

In these I feel both yearning and the pulse of life. Poems 4 and 5 perfectly balance number 3, like moon to sun. 

Thank you, Parker. "Messenger of the morn" is  a reference to the planet Venus, as she's both the evening and morning star 

As each poem gave way to the next I enjoyed each one more than the previous.

Well done, @AC Benus.

6 minutes ago, ReaderPaul said:

As each poem gave way to the next I enjoyed each one more than the previous.

Well done, @AC Benus.

Cheers to you, ReaderPaul. Thanks for reading and commenting 

I've just encountered an Ian Young poem that speaks to what I was writing about in Poem No. 3. Here's an extract from Young's The Alteration:

Their faces

as they lie below you, or

above,

gaze

into your face,

flushed with need,

desire

filling a perfection

from what was,

the partial beauty

suddenly complete. [...]

What is remembered then?

A kind of innocence.

Human spirits,

sometimes,

human forms,

immediate,

absolute.

Not fallen.

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Again thanks for sharing these poems.  I also like the Ian Young poem shared in your comment.

7 hours ago, raven1 said:

Again thanks for sharing these poems.  I also like the Ian Young poem shared in your comment.

Thank you, Terry. I'm reading an anthology of Gay verse Ian Young compiled in 1973. I'm learning a lot from it, and Young was an impressive poet in his own right