"glinting bright as hard polished silver nails"
Teishitsu, Spenser, Troupe, Mead, Mezey
Yasuhara Teishitsu (tr. from Japanese by R.H. Blyth):
Edmund Spenser:
Quincy Troupe:
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Robert Mezey:
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I appreciate that there have recently been poems with contrasts that synthesize. Today is ice and fire. Another was peach and stone (soft/hard). & perfect image for the context. These polarities provide tension.