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Eternal Evensong

 
In her car, the woman in deeepest melancholy sat.
Rain falling, tears falling, splat!

She thought of those many days before.
With many a handsome suitor at her door.

She closed her eyes and she warmly remembered!
Teaching bubbling children in those autumn-hued Septembers.

That cold, icicle-like day in Chicago when she gave birth.
The cries, the screaming, her baby, girl,

Categories: evensong, autumn, loss,
Form: Free verse

The Days Come Warmer

The Days Come, Warmer

Time has ammassed the many aspects of me,
Which I then collect, design and tatt 
Into delicate lace edgings for my aging, and which I then
Lay out into rings around  the bases of tree trunks
To become splendor again, anew across the landscape
 —  with the fragrance of lilies — orange, yellow,

Categories: evensong, blessing, celebration, flower, life,
Form: Free verse

Supplications Evensong

SUPPLICATIONS EvenSong

My Daddy does all things in all things He does
in mind petitions invocations
In my requests are all known
Beseeching vespers reaping salvations
in mind petitions invocations
Earnest are mine request Help me Daddy
Beseeching vespers reaping salvations
Thanksgiving evensong
Earnest are mine request Help me Daddy
In my requests are all known
Thanksgiving evensong
My Daddy does all things in all things He

Categories: evensong, addiction, analogy, appreciation, devotion,
Form: Pantoum

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Evensong of Hope



                               Evensong of Hope

Categories: evensong, confidence, courage, creation, encouraging,
Form: Quatrain

In the Cool Night Air

The bistred day has fallen still,
A darkened mead hangs overhead;
The hush within the evening chill
Chants now the yore is gone to bed.
A gently breeze steals from the west,
Cool along the shadowed lanes;
The sunburned broil,  now at rest,
Its warmth has gone, though still remains.

The cool night air stands all alone
Anon the past is gone to

Categories: evensong, imagery, inspirational, nature, night,
Form: Rhyme

Wilderness

Pt I: The Pilgrims
1991

he’d pick ‘his’ path up as it fell
between the dunes toward the wood
and as the trees knew him so well
they’d all bow down right where he stood
and every day with time to pass
he’d walk and find his secret seat
surrounded by the marram grass
divorced from life’s hard grind and heat
and there he’d sit

Categories: evensong, faith, family, feelings, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme

Hushed Evensong For a Poet


              




               Let me be peaceful
               Angels, cover me with blue stars

Categories: evensong, night, peace,
Form: Senryu

Evensong

The wind blows, weaving through the trees
The song of evening in the breeze
A warmth of love and light and song
A joyful beat when days are long

The light fades softly from the sky
The swan-winged clouds let out a sigh
A tune too soft to put to word
The sweetest song that’s e’er been heard

A golden sunset in the

Categories: evensong, beauty, song, summer, sunset,
Form: Rhyme

Evensong

A golden tincture to the sky
as to the west it goes its way,
last fleeting glance of the sun’s eye
ere night-time comes to wrest the day.

Sat tired within my garden there
high on a tree an anthems sung,
 a feathered lovechild of the airr
affirming joy of life on wing.

Its song more permanent than I
though I may think

Categories: evensong, beauty, bird, life, song,
Form: Rhyme

Norwich Cathedral Evensong

Nine hundred years these arches rang :
With fervent praise the people sang.
In early days the monks would chant
As from the heights bright beams would slant
Illuminating Norman stone
And soften with a pallid light,
With Benedictine monotone,
To put all worldly dark to flight.

With skill, in stone, mere men have wrought
A timeless edifice, which sought
To witness to the power

Categories: evensong, history, music, religion,
Form: Verse

Evensong

I can't
Now that that name 
Has dominated my life,
An evensong with
Everlasting lyric
That at times when I may
Be still
I can recite through memory.
It is yet still new to me.
So many are the fresh syllables
That lay undiscovered and foreign
In the pit of my mouth.
So strange that I 
Am the one to recognize it,
To have it strike me
Again

Categories: evensong, love, nostalgia, may,
Form: Free verse

Sangious Evensong

Sleeping beside the obloquy's poet,
2:40 am,a candle seeks it's death:
In the plight of your dream.
Slow breathing,
Perhaps the moons learns of her slumbering,
Where the labyrinths of reposing,
Remembers the calm sought,
Of your silent silhouette,
Burn on the walls of the memory.
Are the dreams fluent?
And ever flowing as the heart which stirs,
The compassion of your lucid nature,
In the eyes

Categories: evensong, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Evensong

For my sins and everything I ever did or sought to be, 
Contempt and dying to be clever in unfathomed pools of sadness, 
I plumbed each depth and splashed the ether, oscillated shakily, 
Strapped to dark beliefs and definitions, all I gleaned of me was badness.

In my heart I hoarded secrets, guarded, gloated jealously, 
Something

Categories: evensong, introspection, life, loss, lost
Form: Verse