Hope After the Fall. Ben Fitch

      Hope After the Fall

      Selected Poems 2003-2015

      by Ben Fitch

      Copyright 2016 Ben Fitch,

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      Table of Contents

       Part Nine (2015)

       Part Eight (2013)

       Part Seven (2011)

       Part Six (2011)

       Part Five (2010)

       Part Four (2010)

       Part Three (2006)

       Part Two (2004)

       Part One (2003)

      Preface

      Believing nihilism to be insupportable to a sober mind, I write poetry to resolve paradoxes; in thus envisaging harmony images are summoned from the natural world

Part Nine (2015)

      Detritus of a banquet shelved

      Anterior effulgence delved

      Elliptic course of depths to sound

      The Rubicon no coarsened shroud

      Beyond horizons edging near

      More undulating ease and fear

      Short circuits mere alternation

      Till respite’s salved, this elongation

      Miasma spurned in memories

      In retrospection shun the breeze

      Lest midnight sunshine Candlemas —

      Somnambulance of Animus —

      Descends abroad to evanesce

      At length the view reductionist

      Yet echoes of bedizened bliss

      A pulse descry — a simple plan

      The mid-day moon — our talisman

      Lo the voice I held as mine

      Like crystal cultures steeped in brine

      In solitude and circumspection

      Chiselled out, the soft inflections

      Endogenous, the lost caress

      A scarce resemblance manifest

      The apparition blanched the garden

      Composed of stencils, stents disheartened

      The interregnum, monsoon blight

      Striven ripeness chaste of light

      A shadow cast, encroaching gloom

      A staggered harvest blessed strewn

      With loss of faith, a faith exhumed

      The stillborn shrapnel, landscape-strewn

      No heroism, restitution

      From timidity, this absolution

      An idle season’s seal impressed

      Culture of a fledgling’s nest

      With tinder draped in absent time

      For diorama scenes aligned

      The faintest start, the slightest trace

      Immutable as strains apace

      With wavelengths weft in adumbration

      Recumbency in elevation

      Season of the chafing mange

      A straw man’s hay — the festive strands

      Wicker for a conflagration

      Caesarian defenestration

      Diverse wounds of parity

      Divest to each extremity

      Where angels range to instigate

      Harmony — the trysts of fate

      One for sorrow, two for joy

      A rainbow on sunbeams grey blurs deploy

      Edifice arcs protrude into mist

      Zeniths of tyranny arraigned and dismissed

      At crystalline curfews, so little to say

      A ruminant’s treasure siphoned of day

      Shame now secretions in this waking pause

      Unleavened the dreams of unbidden discourse

      As nuclear pulsars in heavier waters

      The Aegis of fatal binary discourses

      Young for the summer and small talk and silence

      Forms in succession of bovine abidance

      Stalling lest in gaining speed

      A narrative discordant heeds

      Segmented wounds of syncopation

      Complacency our embrocation

      Rarefied, gliding traction

      Past diffidence and dull distractions

      Arabesque in slow vignettes

      A tone unbroken intercepts

      Mermaid worms of double-dates

      Of double-decade segment breaks

      A stocking shuffle orchestration

      Rectifies the bait verbatim

      A harbour with mosaic terrace

      As toppled spires — the golden chalice

      A fabled hue the blue lagoon

      Incarnate, eternal bloom

Part Eight (2013)