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Plane at Night by Myra Morris

By Perry Middlemiss on February 5, 2014 7:27 AM | No TrackBacks

Suddenly now the sky, that silent place

Has sound --

A single note, unwavering, profound,

Droning through endless space

And nosing through the hollow wastes of night,

Invisible save for one dim, golden light

That moves among the stars, a star in flight.

A plane goes overhead.

O small, lone thing that flies

Through black illimitable skies

Unshaken by the wind's tumultuous tread,

Knowing your secret end you go

Steadfastly through the night,

While we who have no final aim in sight,

Stumble in circles down below!

First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 1944

Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography

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By Perry Middlemiss on January 12, 2014 9:30 AM | No TrackBacks

Boxes of houses littering the land

And toys of cars dwindling to insect size

Change into coloured ribbons as we rise

As at the touch of a magician's hand.

Match sticks of trees dissolve at Height's command.

Fleece cobwebs of clouds clear to glass-like skies,

The sea becomes Greuse-painted silk that lies

As motionless as corrugated sand.

Now earth is flat patterned with maps of farms

Ethereal, crossed threads of roads and snakes

Of rivers coiled bronze-black round dreamsoft clay.

The trance-calm silence the thrilled spirit charms

As nothing stirs save where some great wave breaks

And like white paper lightly blows away.

First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January 1952;

and again in the same newspaper on 7 February 1953.

Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Old Qld Poetry

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