Type into the gaps to complete the poem. To reset the game, click on the "Reset Game" button located below the poem. This will clear all the words you've placed in the blanks, and resetting the poem to its original state with empty blanks. If you prefer to drag and drop words, click the Drag & Drop button below. You can also print out the poem for use in the classroom.
Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides;
And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,
The things light
File through the flesh where no flesh decks bones.
A candle in the thighs
Warms youth and and burns the seeds of age;
Where no seed stirs,
The fruit of man unwrinkles in the stars,
Bright a fig;
Where no wax is, the candle shows hairs.
Dawn breaks behind the eyes;
From poles of and toe the windy blood
Slides like a sea;
fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky
Spout the rod
Divining in a smile the oil of tears.
Night in the sockets rounds,
Like some pitch moon, limit of the globes;
Day lights the bone;
Where cold is, the skinning gales unpin
The winter’s robes;
film of spring is hanging from the lids.
Light on secret lots,
On tips of thought where thoughts in the rain;
When logics die,
The secret of soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.