Dark of the Moon

Chapter 35: Not by the Sea

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A collection of lyric poems organized into thematic sections that dwell on natural landscapes, seasonal change, and intimate emotion. Short, image-driven pieces range from moonlit nights and coastal scenes to autumnal boulevards and secluded woods, often pairing precise sensory detail with reflections on longing, love, memory, and mortality. Portraits of individuals and quiet elegies appear alongside meditations on stars and tides, producing a restrained, musical voice that emphasizes transience and beauty through concise, resonant language.

Not by the Sea

Not by the sea, but somewhere in the hills,

Not by the sea, but in the uplands surely

There must be rest where a dim pool demurely

Watches all night the stern slow-moving skies;

Not by the sea, that never was appeased,

Not by the sea, whose immemorial longing

Shames the tired earth where even longing dies,

Not by the sea that bore Iseult and Helen,

But in a dark green hollow of the hills

There must be sleep, even for sleepless eyes.