Yesterday, 12:17 PM
Genesis
Theodore Roethke
This elemental force
Was wrested from the sun;
A river’s leaping source
Is locked in narrow bone.
This wisdom floods the mind,
Invades quiescent blood;
A seed that swells the rind
To burst the fruit of good.
A pearl within the brain,
Secretion of the sense;
Around a central grain
New meaning grows immense.
and the one called Silence
Theodore Roethke
This elemental force
Was wrested from the sun;
A river’s leaping source
Is locked in narrow bone.
This wisdom floods the mind,
Invades quiescent blood;
A seed that swells the rind
To burst the fruit of good.
A pearl within the brain,
Secretion of the sense;
Around a central grain
New meaning grows immense.
and the one called Silence