other side—through long dark
light slipping silent between bleak sullen clouds
ignites smoldering crown of season's migration
distant flame's refracted beam leaps into our eyes
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Today, the Gay Head Lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard is in danger of falling over the edge of a steep clay cliff into the Atlantic Oicean.
This poem, Silent Light, is a metaphorical poem about our precarious time in history as well as about the threatened lighthouse.
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Today, the Gay Head Lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard is in danger of falling over the edge of a steep clay cliff into the Atlantic Oicean. This poem, Silent Light, is a metaphorical poem about our precarious time in history as well as about the threatened lighthouse.