Valentine's day Heart

Today's heart is brought to you 

by an old poetry book - The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936)

and a 

small red book mark 

marking a poem by

W.S.Graham (1918 -1986)

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Where you (in this saying) lag in the waving woods

under climber moon tonight under branching

industry

of all my homing opposites, this paidout saying

serves us again the upward legging oaks

heaving air.  This fastened fire awakes,

filament between us full of the sleeping rooks.

This wood's around us under the curlew's overweep.

glowormed in the myrtle beds, under the stoop

of the starry harrier boughs, we kindle this memory 

up.

To still lie low together, heart and hand fast,

we hear the windkindling trees around us move

these words bribe words away. Man and woman 

lie at their best, lifeline crossed on lifeline

and all signs sail in their holygranted garden

kept in one element, devoured in an ore of heaven,

they're lifebled back to this now double night.

So are we bedded burning in our infinite

immortal filament where continually our dead cry out.

So you (in the flame-fastened saying) beneath

bullhorned goatbearded oak, look up at the night

falling away across the staining sky.

Our branching veins remember us and flower

the morning's first bright resins burning over

our two kissed lives. Our present morning ever

handing us back to forgivenness lands us back

to under a stiller sky. The daybreak cock

fixed in the calyx east crows seven bright heavens awake.

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And those of you who know me, will know why I have chosen this poem/poet.....................

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