Luminescence

From dark to light transfusing in a flash, 
your silver-sequined mystery 
that spawns new electricity, 
it shines where none has shone before, 
this trembling luminescence, 
through waves refracted with your sheen 
yet shows no movement readily, 
the broken sea reveals your rippled hand. 

Layer on layer endlessly, 
the waves preclude all semblance of your face 
and roll, so indeterminate their swell, 
that light cannot quite penetrate the gloom; 
and sun and stars no energy can gather 
to clarify your loveliness for me;
yet in the dusk your light still lingers, 
bright and undeniable.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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Delaney Avatar
January 30, 2016 at 9:47 PM
A beautifully worded ode to light. I just love the word,'luminescence. SuZ
Bickerstaffe Avatar
January 30, 2016 at 9:49 PM
Thank you SuZ... your kind remarks are much appreciated. Best wishes, Keith
Emu Avatar
January 18, 2016 at 1:01 PM
beautiful write Keith, love the nautical theme woven through. Cheers Craig
Bickerstaffe Avatar
January 18, 2016 at 1:47 PM
Thanks Craig! much appreciated. Keith
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