Dark Cloud White Cloud Dusk Sandstone Volume 1

Description

This book represents a long poem much in the vein of Byron, Milton and Homer. There is no narrative per say, but a free association of images that seek to evoke an impression of beauty in the reader. The title seeks to start with an immediate recognition of beauty. A person who has seen that effect in nature will agree to its power as an object of beauty. There can be no finer experience in nature Fearne believes that this one, and it is hoped, that the poem reaches into the sublime, and comes out ready to impress with its aesthetic sensibilities entirely expressed.

About the Author

Paul Fearne holds a PhD from LaTrobe University, and a Masters degree from the University of Melbourne, which was on beauty. Fearne has been re-diagnosed as having schizo-affective disorder. His poetry has been widely published, including in Westerly, Mascara Literary Review, Unusual Work and Page Seventeen. Poetry is perhaps his first love, although he has wrote in many genres, including philosophical works, autobiography and essay.

Book Extract

There are times



In amongst the debris



That glean hope



And in these times



We are thankful



But what is there left



Of the tenderness of an autumnal day?



It is here



Where we shed our only desire







I have come for you



Oh hope



And there



Where we long to be



I have gathered a new beginning



That is more than we



Indeed



Had hoped











Be true, and then some



And the tide will swim in your favour



I am the thing that simply is



And here



Where we need a traveling mind



There will be recompense



And all that is left to give











The stark insistence of the way



Has born a mighty fruit



And when we are kind



It comes in sleep



We dream of it



And have our chance at interpretation



I feel the levity of all situations



That are my guides



That have wishing to be true



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