An Extract from 'A Song among the Stones'
By Kenneth Steven
(This poem comes from a sequence of poems entitled 'A Song among the Stones', not long out from Polygon in
Edinburgh. It tells the story of hermits who are likely to have made the journey from Iona in the Hebrides to Iceland in the 7th or 8th Century).
Edinburgh. It tells the story of hermits who are likely to have made the journey from Iona in the Hebrides to Iceland in the 7th or 8th Century).
the water lilies pearling the lochs
ruffled in the tugging of the wind
the sunlight comes wild and strong
in gusts like bunches of blown daffodils
this northernness novembered in a moment
driven slate-grey in a suddenness of storm
yet this is the place they came to find
an island thin to the divine
on the edge of the world
a beauty brittle as a bird's egg
larks spinning songs out of sheer sky
orchids blowing in hidden glens
and sometimes, just sometimes
the glory of God in the morning
ruffled in the tugging of the wind
the sunlight comes wild and strong
in gusts like bunches of blown daffodils
this northernness novembered in a moment
driven slate-grey in a suddenness of storm
yet this is the place they came to find
an island thin to the divine
on the edge of the world
a beauty brittle as a bird's egg
larks spinning songs out of sheer sky
orchids blowing in hidden glens
and sometimes, just sometimes
the glory of God in the morning
© Copyright Kenneth Steven 2012.
Please do not use without the poet’s permission.
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