Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
Was it Light?
Was it light?
Was it light within?
Was it light within light?
Stillness becoming alive,
Yet still?
A lively understandable spirit
Once entertained you.
It will come again.
Be still.
Wait.
Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) was an American poet who taught at the University of Washington and won the Pulitzer Prize for his collection The Waking in 1954. This poem is from Poetry for the Spirit, edited by Alan Jacobs (Barnes & Noble, 2002), p. 480.
