Some Short Poems

I was reading a book today called "All the small poems and fourteen more" by Valerine Worth. I liked a couple of them so I am going to share them with you. Enjoy!

~Cynthia


Jewels

In words, in books
Jewels blaze and stream
Out of heaped chests
Or soft, spilled bags:
Diamonds, sharp stars,
Polished emerald tears,
Amethysts, rubies, opals
Spreading fire-surfaced pools,
Pearls falling down
In foam-ropes, sparks
Of topaz and sapphire strewn
Over a dark cave-floor-
How dim, then, the ring
Worn on the finger,
With one set stone.


Clock

This clock
Has stopped,
Some gear
Or spring
Gone wrong-
Too, tight,
Or cracked,
Or croked
With dust;
A year
Has passed
Since last
It said
Ting ting
Or tick
Or tock
Poor
Clock