Poem-A-Day: On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf by Alexander Posey

March 23, 2014 On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf by Alexander Posey   How savage, fierce and grim!  His bones are bleached and white.  But what is death to him?  He grins as if to bite.  He mocks the fate  That bade, ''Begone.''  There's fierceness stamped  In ev'ry bone.    Let silence settle from the midnight sky--  Such silence as you've broken with your cry;  The bleak wind howl, unto the ut'most verge  Of this mighty waste, thy fitting dirge.   Today's poem is in the public domain. About This Poem  Alexander Posey's "On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf" appears in Posey's collection Alex Posey, the Creek Indian Poet: The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey (1910). Poetry by Posey The Poems of Alexander Lawrence Posey (Kessinger Publishing, 2007)   Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Alexander Posey, a Native American Muscogee Creek poet and journalist, was born in 1873. Two years after his untimely death in 1908, his wife collected and published much of his poetry. Related Poems The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me by Delmore Schwartz Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch  horse vision by Julian T. Brolaski  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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