Mike Smith Poet Free verse

Lovers Leap

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How long the days of lovers cleft
The brittle feel of nights bereft
Where restless wind through cedar claws
The rasping void of canyon jaws.

The close up call of raptor hoot
Distant tolls to our melancholic mood 
Cobalt darkness gulfs o’er world's unseen 
And conjures voids where we'd lonely been.

Can this be fair we soft beseech
Our love away and out of reach
And more like us there surely is
A crowded rim ‘round bleak abyss.

We try for slumber the soothing balm
A haven sought, a merciful calm
A place of refuge where torments laid
To rest, if only, if only our thoughts allayed.

But sleep won't come our cherished goal
Instead accelerates this mindless roll
Whirligigged mind but of pleasure void
We ride again this tormenting toy.

Is this the way of minds unhinged
Sleep deprived and nerves well singed
Of thoughts ensnared beyond release
More woven now than bovine fleece.

Dawn creeps in, an early siren wails
Our hollow eyes are pits or gaols
But sounds there are, a creeping swell
To rescue minds near lost pell-mell.

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Rhoda Tripp December 18, 2017 at 12:25 PM Another fantastic write. I love your linguistic skills. Mike Smith December 19, 2017 at 1:08 AM Hi Rhoda, thanks very much for the positive crit - always helps to know that someone has enjoyed ones labours. I live in a small village called Hout Bay near Cape Town and the south east wind often howls through the big Cape cedars here, hence the inspiration for the poem one sleepless night!