Poems by Themis

Life's Riddle

One lined the ominous shadows

With sunlight of the soul,

And poured the honey moon-wine

Into this clayey bowl;

With filaments of silver

Knotted up joy and pain,

In nets of gleaming wonder

Dream-veiled the seer-eyed brain.

A mystery and magic

Are woven everywhere,

Within us and around us,

Entangled in earth's air:

The shadows and the sunlight,

The mystic wine and mud,

Life's purity and passion

All run within our blood.

We cross Time's riddling waters

Towards prophetic seas,

Voices of deep assurance

Surging from vasts of peace.

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