Dark cloud White cloud Dusk Sandstone Volume 1

Description

This book represents a long poem much in the vein of Byron, Milton and Homer. There is no narrative per say, but a free association of images that seek to evoke an impression of beauty in the reader. The title seeks to start with an immediate recognition of beauty. A person who has seen that effect in nature will agree to its power as an object of beauty. There can be no finer experience in nature Fearne believes that this one, and it is hoped, that the poem reaches into the sublime, and comes out ready to impress with its aesthetic sensibilities entirely expressed. 

About the Author

Paul Fearne holds a PhD from LaTrobe University, and a Masters degree from the University of Melbourne, which was on beauty. Fearne has been re-diagnosed as having schizo-affective disorder. His poetry has been widely published, including in Westerly, Mascara Literary Review, Unusual Work and Page Seventeen. Poetry is perhaps his first love, although he has wrote in many genres, including philosophical works, autobiography and essay. 

Book Extract

There are times 

In amongst the debris 

That glean hope 

And in these times 

We are thankful 

But what is there left 

Of the tenderness of an autumnal day? 

It is here 

Where we shed our only desire 



I have come for you 

Oh hope 

And there 

Where we long to be 

I have gathered a new beginning 

That is more than we 

Indeed 

Had hoped 





Be true, and then some 

And the tide will swim in your favour 

I am the thing that simply is 

And here 

Where we need a traveling mind 

There will be recompense 

And all that is left to give 





The stark insistence of the way 

Has born a mighty fruit 

And when we are kind 

It comes in sleep 

We dream of it 

And have our chance at interpretation 

I feel the levity of all situations 

That are my guides 

That have wishing to be true 

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