Friday 15 June 2012

Just One Poem: Sylvia Plath - Poppies in October

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 Here is the poem featured:

Poppies in October

Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly -- 

A gift, a love gift
Utterly unasked for
By a sky

Palely and flamily
Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes
Dulled to a halt under bowlers.

 O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers.