Helene Johnson, "Trees at Night" (1925)
[Opportunity poetry prize, 1925]
Slim Sentinels
Stretching lacy arms
About a slumbrous moon;
Black quivering
Silhouettes
Tremulous,
Stencilled on the petal
Of a bluebell;
Ink spluttered
On a robin's breast'
The jagged rent
Of mountains
Reflected in a
Stilly sleeping lake;
Fragile pinnacles
Of fairy castles;
Torn webs of shadows;
And
Printed 'gainst the sky--
The trembling beauty
Of an urgent pine.
Publsihed in Opportunity, May 1925