Sun Poems & Vibes
Round-Up of Sun Writing
Hello friends! I've kept quiet and light as a ray of sun lately focused on a couple things here and there. So for now here’s a round-up of quotes from poems on the sun. Click-through the headers to read the poems in-full. Enjoy —
Quoted from Pádraig Ó Tuama, 'In-between the sun and moon’
In-between the sun and moon,
I sit and watch
and make some room
for letting light and twilight mingle,
shaping hope
Quoted from Fenton Johnson, ‘Children of the Sun’
We are the star-dust folk,
Striving folk!
Sorrow songs have lulled to rest;
Seething passions wrought through wrongs,
Led us where the moon rays dip
In the night of dull despair,
Showed us where the star gleams shine,
And the mystic symbols glow—
Liberty! Fraternity!
Quoted from Eloise Bibb Thompson, ‘Ode to the Sun’
How many scenes, O sun,
Hast thou not shone upon!
How many tears, O light,
Have dropped before thy sight!
Quoted from Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ‘A Solar Eclipse’
In that great journey of the stars through space
About the mighty, all-directing Sun,
The pallid, faithful Moon, has been the one
Companion of the Earth. Her tender face,
Pale with the swift, keen purpose of that race,
Which at Time’s natal hour was first begun,
Shines ever on her lover as they run
And lights his orbit with her silvery smile.
Quoted from John Donne, ‘The Sun Rising’
Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
…
Thou, sun, art half as happy as we,
In that the world's contracted thus.
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.
Quoted from Steve Scafidi, ‘Something New Under the Sun’
It would have to shine. And burn. And be
a sign of something infinite and turn things
and people nearby into their wilder selves
and be dangerous to the ordinary nature of
signs and glow like a tiny hole in space
Quoted from Sean Hill, ‘The Sun in Bemidji, Minnesota’
The sun isn’t even a pearl today—
its light diffused, strained gray
by winter haze—this the grayest
day so far, so when I enter the Wells
Fargo parking lot the last thing I expect
is to see the sun in the car next to mine.
Quoted from Phillip Larkin, ‘Solar’
The eye sees you
Simplified by distance
Into an origin,
Your petalled head of flames
Continuously exploding.
Heat is the echo of your
Gold.
Quoted from William Wordsworth, ‘The Sun Has Long Been Set’
The sun has long been set,
The stars are out by twos and threes,
The little birds are piping yet
Among the bushes and trees;
BONUS from Me, ‘When we run on the sun’
When we run on the sun
Powering all life, work, and fun
Horizons will shine brighter
With all sun-inspired
When we run on the sun
Calling fossil fuels done
Traded for an upgrade
Earth and sky-aided
When we run on the sun
Stay bright,
— Adam Powers