More Poems
Aug. 24th, 2007 07:22 pmSometimes greatpoets sings for me.
Humbly Fireside
sitting humbly fireside
watching how you move the acts
from one scene to the next
effortlessly.
your laugh is unpoisoned,
a little nervous,
and a family dances around you that
is quaking with love.
there are no chains between you and them
only kite strings,
dew-heavy spider webs glistening
in the fire-lit night.
how do you do it?
live in the rough world
without night-haunts, bones breaking
or a wide crying mouth?
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The Imperfect Lover.
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Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy.
We found the little kingdom of our passion
That all can share who walk the road of lovers.
In wild and secret happiness we stumbled;
And gods and demons clamoured in our senses.
But I’ve grown thoughtful now. And you have lost
Your early-morning freshness of surprise
At being so utterly mine: you’ve learned to fear
The gloomy, stricken places in my soul,
And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.
You made me glad; ( Read more... )
Humbly Fireside
sitting humbly fireside
watching how you move the acts
from one scene to the next
effortlessly.
your laugh is unpoisoned,
a little nervous,
and a family dances around you that
is quaking with love.
there are no chains between you and them
only kite strings,
dew-heavy spider webs glistening
in the fire-lit night.
how do you do it?
live in the rough world
without night-haunts, bones breaking
or a wide crying mouth?
( Read more... )
The Imperfect Lover.
( Read more... )
Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy.
We found the little kingdom of our passion
That all can share who walk the road of lovers.
In wild and secret happiness we stumbled;
And gods and demons clamoured in our senses.
But I’ve grown thoughtful now. And you have lost
Your early-morning freshness of surprise
At being so utterly mine: you’ve learned to fear
The gloomy, stricken places in my soul,
And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.
You made me glad; ( Read more... )