Etymologies are fascinating
What started as a simple poetry exercise became a labor of attentive craft, embracing revision and refinement.
Enjoy this piece in iambic blank verse, where tone, style, and metrical variation weave together to enrich a poem rooted in thought, feeling, and form.
Partly inspired by ‘An ordinary evening at Hamilton’ by D Malouf — a reflection on how Nature’s boundlessness offers comfort, rather than making one feel small and insignificant.
Oh Sonny boy, dear Sonny boy,did you get caught in the storm?Went out a moment ago to playwith other untainted divinities. The thunder mustve dispersedradially the little school band,you mustve weathered the stormsomewhere under with a plane tree You took your time but got back,struggled with the gravity latch,innocently, and only for a moment,came round… Continue reading The Wings of Embrace
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