ODE TO THE MYRRH TREE
So the tree stood in the centre of the desert
Mangled by winds of change and truth of joy
and chains of dust and torrents of rare rain
Burnt black and senseless by an
unrelenting Sun of nightmare beauty
......
These are longer poems and longish poems by Michael R. Burch
Orpheus
by Michael R. Burch
for and after William Blake
I.
......
ODE TO THE MYRRH TREE
So the tree stood in the centre of the desert
Mangled by winds of change and truth of joy
and chains of dust and torrents of rare rain
Burnt black and senseless by an
unrelenting Sun of nightmare beauty
......
These are longer poems and longish poems by Michael R. Burch
Orpheus
by Michael R. Burch
for and after William Blake
I.
......