What if poem andrew motion

What If? O travellers from somewhere else to here Rising from Sheffield Station and Sheaf Square To wander through the labyrinths of air, Pause now, and let the sight of this sheer cliff Become a priming-place which lifts you off To speculate What if..?

Your thoughts are like this too: as fixed as words Set down to decorate a blank facade And yet, as words are too, all soon transferred To greet and understand what lies ahead — The city where your dreamling is re-paid, The lives which wait unseen as yet, unread. Previous Next. O travellers from somewhere else to here Rising from Sheffield Station and Sheaf Square To wander through the labyrinths of air,.

Pause now, and let the sight of this sheer cliff Become a priming-place which lifts you off To speculate What if..? What if..? Cloud shadows drag their hands across the white; Rain prints the sudden darkness of its weight; Sun falls and leaves the bleaching evidence of light.

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Description Andrew Motion's poem 'What if? From geograph. Richard Rogerson.