“he sang to the wind / And spread his arms to meet the waters white / As o’er the deck they tumbled”

For Poetry Monday:


Divinely Superfluous Beauty, Robinson Jeffers

The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals,
Over and under the ocean …
Divinely superfluous beauty
Rules the games, presides over destinies, makes trees grow
And hills tower, waves fall.
The incredible beauty of joy
Stars with fire the joining of lips, O let our loves too
Be joined, there is not a maiden
Burns and thirsts for love
More than my blood for you, by the shore of seals while the wings
Weave like a web in the air
Divinely superfluous beauty.


---L.

Subject quote from The Earthly Paradise, The Golden Apples, William Morris.