Three Poems of Robinson Jeffers

Rock and Hawk

Here is a symbol in which

Many high tragic thoughts

Watch their own eyes.



This gray rock, standing tall

On the headland, where the seawind

Lets no tree grow,



Earthquake-proved, and signatured

By ages of storms: on its peak

A falcon has perched.



I think, here is your emblem

To hang in the future sky;

Not the cross, not the hive,



But this; bright power, dark peace;

Fierce consciousness joined with final

Disinterestedness;



Life with calm death; the falcon's

Realist eyes and act

Married to the massive



Mysticism of stone,

Which failure cannot cast down

Nor success make proud.


Carmel Point

The extraordinary patience of things!

This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses-

How beautiful when we first beheld it,

Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs;

No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing,

Or a few milch cows rubbing their flanks on the outcrop rockheads-

Now the spoiler has come: does it care?

Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide

That swells and in time will ebb, and all

Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine beauty

Lives in the very grain of the granite,

Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff.-As for us:

We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;

We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident

As the rock and ocean that we were made from.

Summer Holiday

When the sun shouts and people abound

One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of

bronze

And the iron age; iron the unstable metal;

Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the tow-

ered-up cities

Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster.

Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains

will cure them,

Then nothing will remain of the iron age

And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem

Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass

In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the

mountain...

Thankyou for the poems , Candy
and for all your Blog-starting-help!!!
love you.