A Prairie Sunset

by Walt Whitman — a poem card from Justes Mots

Whitman celebrates the spectacular color display of a prairie sunset, where nature expresses its full power through luminous hues battling shadows. The poem captures a moment of natural transcendence and sensory abundance. It serves as an uplifting meditation on natural beauty and the transformative experience of witnessing nature's majesty.

Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,
The earth’s whole amplitude and Nature’s multiform power consign’d
for once to colors;
The light, the general air possess’d by them—colors till now unknown,
No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—
North, South, all,
Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.…

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