11 NOVEMBER 1955, Page 21

Poem and Message

Out on the tormented midnight sea your sails are blown in jeopardy. Gales of grief and terrors force you from the spirit's chartered course.

But, in the storm, lighthouses mark rocks of dangers in the dark, so from this shore of cold I write tiny flashes in the Night.

Words of safety, words of love, a beacon in the dark to save you from the catastrophic sea and navigate you home to me.

Dear, vague as a distant star, I, in the huge Night's amorphous lie find one small and luminous truth of which our usual love was proof.

And I call your name as loud as I can and give you all the light I am.

DANNIE AEU