BECOMING

Not for long,
After the dark
The dawning.
After the first light
The sun.
After the calm the wind,
Creasing the water.
After the silence
Sound,
Sound of the wild birds,
And movement,
The fox and the hare.
And all these at one,
Part of the tearless content
Of the eyefs lens.

But over the sunlight,
Shadow
of the first man.







"Becoming"
from The Bread of Truth
You can also find this in
COLLECTED POEMS 1945-1990(J.M.Dent, 1993).


Background image: Night at Berriew, 2007
This photo was taken in August 2007 by Yoshifum! Nagata