Unpublished Poetry Series: The Bowl-Carver

 

Unpublished Poetry Series: The Bowl-Carver by Douglas Thornton

The Bowl-Carver

Closeness of the night,

Figure of what is intimate,

Turn the strange effects

Of elusive image to dreams

We shall never keep,

And beauty of the eye unfolds

From all misfortune,

Through measure of love, or fairer

Sort of sight attained,

A hope that in despondent mind

Memory will see

The action missed. All things are made

By revealing space

Where nothing was, like when the moon

Comes up, the further

As its form seems to drift away,

The night deepening

With inner light admits a joy

Seldom incomplete.

Douglas Thornton