A.A. Rosenthal - Shade Mountain (1922)
Forgotten Poems #25
—: Shade Mountain :—
Sycamores Arrowlike plumes Fanning a dawn To flame. Sycamores Spirals of summer smoke Embering a sunset To dreams.
A.A. Rosenthal (p. 1920-23, etc.)
P: Poetry (1920+), Tempo (1921), Voices (1921), Modern Review (1922+), etc.
Worked as a lawyer; associate editor of The Pagan, and editor of The Nomad: “A poetry magazine belonging to no school and championing no creed. It has no set policy and encourages no particular group, but welcomes all forms of verse to its pages, especially the work of younger poets.”
rhododendron— for A.A. Rosenthall, by Dick Whyte petals browned by the sun while birds sing— sparrows, probably and the sky, proud of its children— teaches a lesson that cannot be taught, listen!
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—: Moonlight :— Black canyons, Silver mesas, Mountains cowled in mist . . . Columns of silence supporting the sky and an old gold moon. Flooding moonlight— Black . . . silver . . . blue . . . gold . . .